Quotes About Knowledge

You have the right answer . . . the question is wrong.

It was this 'ripening' that the slaveholding classes of North American seemed to fear above all else: the dawning consciousness of enslaved persons that they had an inborn right to be free--and that they might take further steps to make it happen, because they already had superior numbers. All they would need in the future was a little more knowledge, a little more discipline, and some more key allies among the whites.

Este mai de dorit minimul de cunoa?tere a lucrurilor foarte importante decât cunoa?terea socotit?, foarte sigur? a lucrurilor foarte m?runte.

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi. English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are. First president of Czechoslovakia.

As Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematical philosopher and Nobel laureate, famously lamented in an essay condemning the rise of Nazi Germany, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you would the truth oppose By quotations, you will find Plenty; but, when all is done, Though they're many, truth is one.

M?drych ludzi jest du?o, du?o mniej od absolwentów wy?szych uczelni.

Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples.

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

Stultorum cavea mundus est.

Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.

Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it

The only proper prayer is one of gratitude for your knowledge to ask for wisdom and understanding.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

consumed everything I could read or listen to that

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

O verdadeiro crescimento da Igreja, sob qualquer situação, quer de liberdade ou perseguição, só pode vir de um íntimo conhecimento do Deus Vivo.

O homem que tem uma experiência nunca ficará à mercê daquele que só tem argumentos.

You only fear what you don't know, if you knew everything you would have no fear.

So although in one language, humankind is forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, in the other it is not only permitted, it is encouraged. That is precisely what that goddamn tree is there for, for humankind to suck from its fruit, and suck and suck and suck and suck, thirty times a day if necessary.

But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon, he may need it.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world? Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.

What I believe does not matter. I want to know, not merely believe. You may very well be innocent, Tiuri, son of Tiuri, but treachery and deceit are often concealed behind an innocent face. -Sir Bendu