Quotes About Knowledge

Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information.

I was a precocious child, and I resolved to read everything I could get my hands on, in order to encapsulate the whole of human knowledge. At the time the project seemed less impractical than it does today. I did as best I could and by the time I was ten or elven had read what I suspect was equivalent to a college education.

I don't know nothing for sure, except water runs downhill and I gotta pay my rent.

To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metathasm, corolopsis.

Navarth looked off across the water. "Do you realize that a crook of my finger disturbs the farthest star? That every human thought disturbs the psychic parasphere?" "This is the source of your knowledge—psychic perturbations?" "As good a method as any other.

Informing you is a pleasure, since you are quick to learn.

I am a legalist and a financial expert, I admit as much; but my disregard for the law goes no farther.

But knowledge creates a craving for further knowledge. Where is the harm in knowledge?

Gontwitz studied Moncrief for a long moment. "Doubtless you are a deep-dyed scholar and a past master of poodle-de-doodle; also, you have read several books. Still, your knowledge of Star Home is a muddle and your theories are bunk.

There is too much knowledge already in the world; we use facts as crutches, logic is deceit. I know a single system of communication: the declaiming of poetry.

on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.

She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

importance of constant learning as the key to being a successful ruler.

The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there—somewhere.

Following the example of Genghis Khan, the early Mongol rulers clearly recognized that knowledge constituted their most potent weapon, and controlling the flow of information served as their organizing principle. Genghis

Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford

I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge into–into what? Into Zen Buddhism; into falsely profound questions … into extrasensory perception and mystery. They do not lie along the line of what we are now able to know if we devote ourselves to it: an understanding of man himself.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

The democracy of the intellect comes from the printed book…

The brain cannot reach its inner conclusions by any logic of certainty. In place of this, the brain must do two things. It must be content to accept less than certain knowledge. And it must have statistical methods which are different in kind from ours, by which it reaches its acceptable level of uncertainty. By these means, the brain constructs a picture of the world which is less than certain yet highly interlocked in its parts.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

These frozen faces, these frozen frames in a film that is running down, mark a civilisation which failed to take the first step on the ascent of rational knowledge. That is the failure of the New World cultures, dying in their own symbolic Ice Age.

The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works.