Quotes About Knowledge

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.