Quotes About Knowledge

I want to understand everything, said Miro. I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means. Excellent project, she said. It will look very good on your résumé.

the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time. Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! 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.

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you

Peregrinos viajeros hacia el altar de la inteligencia

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die.

That's how we're going to face the end of the world? Reading a book?

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

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it." "I guess that's what you're doing. Betting your life on her being what you think she is.

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

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.

Speakers for the dead apparently have an almost pathological reliance on the idea that people behave better when they know more.

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.

I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.

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

Nobody knows more than can be learned in a single lifetime

with than the person who actually lived.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Sometimes the government is the last to know.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

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