Quotes About Knowledge

Beware of the half-truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.... when they said it was now "cold weather," I saw that they had traveled outside of their sphere of knowledge and were floundering. I believe that in India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

A new broom sweeps clean but the old broom knows the corners.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.

I, for one, never can have too many books; nor can my books cover too many subjects. I may never read them all, but they are always there, and I never know what strange coast I am going to pick up at any time in sailing the world of knowledge.

But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet

but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.

Era piombato nelle tenebre. E nel momento stesso in cui lo seppe, smise di sapere.

Amos, que não percebia nada de química, observava-o com tranquila curiosidade. Mas Jees Uck, com uma fé profunda na sabedoria dos brancos e particularmente na sabedoria de Neil Bonner, Jees Uck que não só não sabia nada como tinha noção da sua ignorância, fitava-o no rosto, mais do que nas mãos.

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

you don't know the game of buying brains. I do. That's my specialty. I'm going to make money out of them

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

To him it signified death. He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death.  To him it stood as the greatest of hurts.  It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

vard???n hükümler, okuduÄŸun kitaplarla paraleldir mutlaka.

there is no security in ignorance.

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.