Quotes About Knowledge

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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.

unpleasant-fact specialist

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

Certain things not only can't be taught but can be retarded by other stuff that can be taught.

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

I certainly didn't set out to create something famous there. I just set out to find some answers to questions that were nagging me. As in life, so in science: One thing leads to another, and before you know it, you find yourself someplace you never imagined going.

It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.

let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.

For novelists have the privilege of knowing everything.

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

In our endeavour to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch.

The only thing ensuring our security is the certain knowledge that our nuclear boomers are still out there under the seas ready with swift retaliation if

Unfortunately, one of the things that is lacking in our society is a good financial education. Most people barely understand what the stock market is and how it operates, and options are a level above even that.

He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.

If the truth were known, he was half starved, and yet there was still no end of books he ought to read before he died.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Educated men are so impressive!