Quotes About Knowledge

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, says Trollope, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has prepared for His creatures. Other pleasures may be more ecstatic; but the habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know, in which there is no alloy.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.

Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

If one has to say, in an argument, I am intelligent! I do know things! then one might as well stop arguing.

I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.

it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.