Quotes About Knowledge

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality.

La educación y las habilidades de los trabajadores son lo que genera el conocimiento científico sobre el que se construye nuestro progreso y lo que permite la adaptación y adopción de estas tecnologías en varias líneas de negocio.

Books spread ideas and make the population much harder to control. Some of these ideas may be valuable new ways to increase economic growth, but others may be subversive and challenge the existing political and social status quo. Books also undermine the power of those who control oral knowledge, since they make that knowledge readily available to anyone who can master literacy. This threatened to undermine the existing status quo, where knowledge was controlled by elites.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

I know the names of every intelligent being, the spots on the wings of every butterfly that broke out of a cocoon, the genetic codes of the simplest and most complex of creatures. I know how suns functioned, how worlds formed, how life evolved. All of the secrets of the old universes are mine. They can be yours too, if you want me to share, though I suspect you aren't bothered.

Towards dawn, as we were making camp, Vancha suddenly burst out laughing. Look at us! he hooted, as we stared at him uncertainly. We've been moping all night like four sad souls at a funeral. What idiots we've been! You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, Sire? Mr. Crepsley asked archly. Charna's guts! Vancha cursed. The sentence has been there since the start — all that's changed is that we know about it! A little knowledge is a... dangerous thing, Harkat muttered.

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

Which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Regular adult Americans are no more capable of doing math than they are of photosynthesis.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

If you're a novice in Cyberspace, you may think that buying a computer is a scary and confusing process. But the truth is that if you take a little time to learn a few basic principles and some of the technical lingo, buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. So let's get started!

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We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.