Quotes About Knowledge

No matter what passes, for good or ill, it is always better to know.

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

I've read all the books but One only remains sacred: this volume of wonders, open always before my eyes

You'd be surprised, Mr. Winshaw. They give library cards to anyone these days. Even secretaries.

Mairi cupped her daughter's face in her hands. "There are things ye believe, lass, and things that are true. Someday, mayhap, ye'll learn to know the difference.

Medicine is not a science; physicians must act. They must do the best they can, even when it is inadequate, even when they don't know all there is to know, even when there is nothing to do. So must we all.

I want to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. —Warren Buffett

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

hundred and eighty-nine, and expertise in weaponry." "And you speak oddly." Knowing

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...

The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lin Yutang

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Hi shook his head. "The guy's not a rocket scientist. Or a rock scientist. He's dumb, is what I'm saying.

It's not what you know, it's when you know it.

It wasn't as if she was a silly, naive miss who knew nothing of the way of things--heaven knows, she had been to Boston!

We're quiet then, quiet enough that I can hear the books around me creaking in their shelves, rustling their pages, stretching their spines, as if they have something to add to the conversation. Which some of them probably do.

You Bookmen flock to the battlefield like vultures.

Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.

I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.