Quotes About Knowledge

You are learning about yourself," he said. "Such knowledge can defend you better than a sword or armor. Such knowledge gives you arrows of the mind.

I forced myself to develop a shield of passionless dedication, rather than pander the possible consequences of our quest. It helped to think we were engaged in a holy mission, and that each soulscaper we encountered was simply expanding the knowledge we needed to save our people.

Here we are in darkness," Tayven said, "And for us, if we did not know better, this light would be all that existed. But we do know better. We know that outside the cave the world is bathed in light.

The women around her, many of whom she knew, were not showing their everyday faces. They did know something, she could sense it. They hid their secret faces behind a screen, but now it was drawn back.

The excitement of knowing we would utterly drain this boy kindled frantic desire. He too was aroused by the prospect of his sacrifice; the intimacy of this knowledge we shared was more holy than any physical sensations we might soon enjoy.

Through him, she began to visualise the landscape of her early years with new eyes and spoke of the secret knowledge of eventual immanence, which she thought illustrated most emphatically her difference to normal people.

I can be your ally, Khaster. You should look beneath the surface." Khaster laughed uneasily. "That's a perilous course in Magrast. Sometimes, you find more than you bargained for." "And that's not always a bad thing.

She felt he knew where Owen was, and was savouring the knowledge; something she didn't have.

He's an insular creature, yet aware his knowledge is too great to die with him. My mere presence reminds him he is mortal, although I suspect he will live the equivalent of four lifetimes before he finally succumbs to death.

It is better to learn than to know, because even when you know, you cannot always live by it.

The facts were locked up somewhere; it was felt we no longer needed them, that their starkness might harm the delicate balance of our relationship with this world.

Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.

We will talk of these things, for there is more to know than we know and more to say than we can say.

Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that saves lives can be used to do exactly the opposite. Especially when they have the blood of the Wise Ones in their veins.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.

Humans belong to the group of conscious beings that are carbon-based, solar system-dependent, limited in knowledge, prone to error and mortal.' It is strangely comforting to be granted tacit permission to make mistakes just because we are human.

Humans belong to the group of conscious beings that are carbon-based, solar system-dependent, limited in knowledge, prone to error and mortal.

It's stupid, really," I began again. "But it was this thing I read someplace, and it really got to me. It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it,

I realize no one thinks being a librarian is as awesome as being a neurosurgeon, but I always thought I was doing something valuable, putting books in the hands of readers. Books can save lives, too. I really believe that.

Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, memoir. Science, psychology. History. Everything had its place. That was the beauty of libraries. No surprise except when someone screwed up, or was lazy, or was a thief.