Quotes About Knowledge

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.

I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised that she does. And the same with Hercule Poirot. How can that ridiculous little man know anything? But he does, he does. It is the triumph of the meek, in Agatha Christie as in the Gospels.

There are two ways that you can learn about the world. You can travel or you can read.

There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Experts flatten the world.

They were quite free to indulge in unlimited dreams and memories of women. Was that not why they felt no hesitation at paying more than for women awake? And the old men were confident in the knowledge that the girls put to sleep for them knew nothing of them. Nor did the old men know anything of the girls—not even what clothes they wore—to give clues of position and character. The reasons went beyond such simple matters as disquiet about later complications.

In fondo, per 'aprire gli occhi', basta vivere a lungo.»

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.

A wise person is one who knows how to make complicated matters simple.

As soon as the knowledge of the Reality has sprung up, there can be no fruits of past actions to be experienced, owing to the unreality of the body, in the same way as there can be no dream after waking.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

As students, we have all known two types of teachers, the pedantic and the inspiring. The former have a definite method and operate according to well-established habits; the latter need neither, because they know the subject through and through, Indeed, we may say that teaching methods, which generate subjective habits, are but poor substitutes for the kind of objective intimacy with the subject matter to be taught, which we call 'habitus

Expertise in any given single area is not enough to guarantee either prudent policies or the avoidance of blunders.

Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.