Quotes About Knowledge

The order of Fungi is still Chaos, a scandal of art, no botanist knowing what is a Species and what is a Variety.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

For a large part of what I know about people and things I have to thank an art of listening which wise teachers taught me early.

Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the more you prided yourself on knowing already the less you listened and the less you learned.

The secret is there is no secret. That is what we really wish to keep from our kids, and its suppression is the true collusion of adulthood, the pact we make, the Talmud we protect.

To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known.

Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake.

It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.

Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain—which

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

People fear what they don't understand.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.

You Know What They Say " Forewarned is Forearmed " - Anna Maria

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

And by the way"—she looks up suddenly—"I've read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.