Quotes About Knowledge

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?

Anyone can know exactly what is stored in the vault by going to its "Seed Portal"— www.nordgen.org/sgsv .

Lorena liked it. "I'd say 'awesome,' but we're not supposed to," she said. "Not me," said Sam. "Now that I know how real butter is made, I'll never eat it again." "Don't worry," said Amy, "this is not the same as what you buy in the store." "I think it's better because we made it ourselves," said Allison.

As for your back rubs... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.

What do you mean by that?" Her frustration got the best of her. "You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't." One of his big, competent hands landed on the blade of his hip. "What's your deal anyway? Do you feel like such a failure that you need to attack anybody who's successful?" "No. Maybe. I don't know. Fuck you.

You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.

Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)

It has always been my belief that Protestants, born with innate knowledge of all things botanical, cannot help but think less of you if you have to ask.

Memory, which depends on the capacity to absorb ideas and information through exposition and to connect new information to an established edifice of knowledge, is one of the first victims of video culture. Without memory, judgments are made on the unsound basis of the most recent bit of half-digested information.

Beginning with the radio evangelist Billy Sunday in the twenties, American fundamentalists, with their black-and-white view of every issue, have made effective use of each new medium of mass communication. Liberal religion, with its many shades of gray and determination to make room for secular knowledge in the house of faith, does not lend itself as readily to media packaging and is at an even greater disadvantage in the visual media than it was on the radio.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist.

My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.

I can always be tempted by a library.

People will always distrust what they don't understand. And what they distrust, they cannot

We're not like God, [Papa] says. We can't know. We can't live like we do know or should have known.

People will always distrust what they don't understand.

By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your world, and you don't have another. (p.107)