Quotes About Knowledge

Some people still think knowledge is power.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore. I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Call me the voice of ex­pe­ri­ence.

We thought all this teach­ing was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.

He can't live with know­ing the fu­ture and not be­ing able to save any­one.

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation.

It's worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge, if you will. As a looping, wrinkled mass, a human brain unmistakably looks like gray intestines, and it's within these thinking bowels that my experiences are broken down, consumed to become my life story. My thoughts occur as flavorful burps or acrid barf. The indigestible gristle and bone of my memories are expelled as these words.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Pero si la realidad no es más que un conjuro, y no quieres realmente lo que crees que quieres... —Acerca su cara a mi cara y dice—: Si no tienes libre albedrío. No sabes qué sabes en realidad. Realmente no amas a quien solamente crees que amas. ¿Qué razones te quedan para vivir?

trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge

You can't keep the whole Bible balanced in your head. You wouldn't have room to remember your name.