Quotes About Knowledge

It's intelligence that makes you unhappy.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with the 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.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

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

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

Ah,' said Speaker. 'There's so much that we don't understand. And so much that you don't understand. We should tell each other more.

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao

I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....

I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything. Naturally, none of us actually achieve such complete knowledge - but we should live as if we were trying to do so. You can't afford to close off any area of inquiry.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.