Quotes About Knowledge

Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

And yet I'm sure, Cheeser, that in this world of ours, science doesn't hold the only key; it only unlocks one of the doors – and perhaps the side door at that.

I can explain nothing to you unless I first draw your attention to patent inadequacies in your knowledge; discontinuities in the relations between objects, or the presence of anomalies you cannot account for by any of the laws known to you. You will remain deaf to my explanations until you suspect yourself of falsehood.

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.

What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis -- The Calorie Man

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant: They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

We all love each other, Ange, I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. No, not like this, she went on relentlessly. Fang loves you.......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? Forget it! No one's getting married! I hissed. Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.

Little books can mean big things, baby books are things that you probably might not know.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Suddenly, the only thing I could hear in my head was the voice of then-senator Howard Baker during the Watergate hearings, asking one of the most famous—if not the most famous—political questions of all time. What did the president know and when did he know it? Then

The library will remain the school's number one information resource center, where everybody is free to study anything and everything they want.

SCHOOL—WHAT COULD BE SCARIER THAN THAT?

How do you know anything for sure? I thought. But i knew the answer to that already. You don't

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

Better readers are better thinkers.

I'll out-Google Google!