Quotes About Knowledge

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

But biology does not readjust to accommodate the false theories of scientists …' – James le Fanu, British physician

Writing doesn't get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know. Norman Bowker leaned back and considered what he might've said on the subject. He knew shit. It was his specialty. The smell, in particular, but also the numerous varieties of texture and taste. Someday he'd give a lecture on the topic. Put on a suit and tie and stand up in front of the Kiwanis club and tell the fuckers about all the wonderful shit he knew. Pass out samples, maybe.

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything

O poder do acesso a pedido à informação é a chave para a próxima geração de aprendizagem. Aqueles que se preocupam com a tecnologia e o futuro do trabalho devem estar atentos a isso, bem como aos pequenos trechos de vídeo, como mecanismo de aprendizagem preferido.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

knowledge is better than wonder

No. It will eventually manifest itself again, but it won't be the same personality as before; though at the same time it won't be a different personality either. 'Same' and 'different' are far too specific. And it won't have learned what I want to know. It will simply happen to know it this time. Or, if not this time, it will know it some time. It's like waiting for two or twelve to come up in a game of dice.

On our hunger to control and know everything humans break and spoil

Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.

What these aliens did provide, however—and in abundance—was a phenomenal amount of knowledge, inspiration, and, in many respects, protection for those involved with the Amicizia group. And it needs to be pointed out here that, on at least two occasions since 1956, they had prevented a nuclear war on Earth. "They did so by transmuting the fissionable metals inside the warheads into lighter substances

I know something about a lot of things, she countered evenly. That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember? - Mara Jade

the way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart.

There are patterns in imperial communications, as there are in everything else. Once the pattern is known, knowledge is easier to obtain.

To live in a world fairly dripping with technology and yet have no concept of how or why any of it worked—it seemed incomprehensible.

we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities.

No man is wise enough by himself.

The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.

And Marty understood that there was never going to be anyone to tell her these things. She had no idea why this should be so; it was just something she knew.