Quotes About Knowledge

I've read two books a week for 30 years....I'm satisfied I know everything.

Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It's truly amazing.

Seriously?" Spartacus looked amazed. "I thought this looked the same to everyone. We're in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It's beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeous patterns in the wood, and beautiful books. There's endless amounts to read and look at.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

The knowledge that they existed, those phantoms that forever haunted the corner of the eye, was a form of haunting in itself.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?". Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

intentional policy drift assumes knowledge of policy failure and implies that "policy makers fail to update policies due to pressure from intense minority interests or political actors exploiting veto points in the political process

Parents these days don't read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children.

It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you.

You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you're an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you'll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It's arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

The Imperial University library was a substantial three-story building. When Kusanagi was a student, he had only visited it two or three times at most. He guessed that additions had been built since he'd left, but he couldn't exactly remember what the place had looked like before. The entire edifice could have been rebuilt and he wouldn't have known the difference.

If we know the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of,

If you don't even know where the door is, how can you ever expect to be able to walk through it? Of course, you don't have to walk through it unless you want to. All I'm testing here is whether or not you know where the doorway is. I'm giving you choices.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

the most certain sciences are like things lit up by the sun so that they may be seen. But it is God who gives the light. Reason is in our minds as sight in our eyes, and the eyes of the mind are the senses of the soul. Now, however pure it be, bodily sense cannot see any visible thing without the light of the sun. Hence, however perfect be the human mind, it cannot by reasoning know any truth without the light of God, which belongs to the aid of grace.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you'd like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.