Quotes About Knowledge

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

Queremos comprender, creemos que si vivimos lo bastante vamos a comprender el mundo; dentro de una hora, mañana, dentro de un año,... Pero quizá no importe nada comprender o no.

For instance, despite all our knowledge, we still associate the word "journey" with separation and speed.

Not to know. Not to remember. With this one hope: That beyond the River Lethe, there is memory, healed.

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods.

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Every great discovery or decision comes by an act of divination. Facts are fitted round afterwards.

How can there be any secrets, we are all the same organisms? How can there be any secrecy, when everything is known to all of us?

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.

By this time Miss Lamington knew a good deal about her "boss". She knew that he was thirty-six (which was "quite old" in her estimation); he lived with his mother at Beckenham and travelled to the office every day

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

She should know all there was to know - all that I knew, and, what was more important still, she should know that there was no more to know. Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination like Clementina's.

Every day,' nodded Julia. 'I've learnt quite a lot. What an easy way of making money, isn't it?' 'But, look here! You mustn't try speculating on your own. It's frightfully risky. The thing to do is to put your pile into something safe.' 'Oh, I know,' she agreed. 'I've learnt enough about business to know that I don't know much.' 'Some people never learn as much as that.

The other day I said to Waldron I'd give him a book to read—any book he liked—and he said he never read anything except the papers. He said he liked true stories, not made-up ones. Then I said, what about history? And he said, ' That's over and done with. All that matters to me is what happens between the time I was born and the time when I die.' What can you do with a man like that, David?

We should take the time to learn and understand how to make the money work for us versus working for the money, and do your due diligence and understand what it is that you're investing in.