Quotes About Knowledge

You have to know exactly what you're doing before you decide to use guns.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Then you've learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Sin el conocimiento de Dios por parte de quienes adoran, sin una fe activa, sin reverencia, sin gratitud en el adorador, incluso las mejores formas de adoración simplemente caen por su propio peso.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

I read, I say. I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it. My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.

T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I'll show you a bullshit artist.

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

Naive people are, more or less by definition, unaware that they're naive.

Certe cose non solo non possono essere insegnate, ma possono essere ritardate da altre cose che invece possono essere insegnate

The library, and step on it!

La verità ti renderà libero. Ma solo quando avrà finito con te.

Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress. There must be some other way to deal with the knowledge of the disastrous consequences fear and stress could bring about. Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine? … What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people?

It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even of any use to those that are.