Quotes About Knowledge

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.

Even in this world, more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

What you put in your head is there forever.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched him pass and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish.

She knew that in the end you really cant know. You cant get hold of the world. You can only draw a picture. Whether it's a bull on the wall of a cave or a partial differential equation it's all the same thing.

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

where all is known, no narrative is possible.

There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.

Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to drink from an empty glass I must remember whether I have drained it or not.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.

Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God—who knows all that can be known—seems powerless to change.