Quotes About Knowledge

That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though—we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

By doubting we come at truth.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

There needed to be places like this - places to read and write and study and argue and debate with all different kinds of people and not to have to look over your shoulder all the time. Places where the desire for knowledge overwhelmed boundaries and differences.

Jangan bikin kepalamu menjadi perpustakaan. Pergunakan pengetahuanmu untuk diamalkan - Swarni Vivekananda

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.

Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?" "Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was one of them, and I don't like having to relearn things.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.