Quotes About Knowledge

Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed." Araris

You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?

That's the thing about knowledge, though. The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

If you know that much," I said, "if you are that powerful, why did you hire a bodyguard to bring you here?" "My feet don't reach the pedals.

Everything's never in the open, son," he responded. "There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times. Or that's been my experience.

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I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Some free advice for you: Never fight an old man. They've been there, done that, written the book, made and starred in the movie, designed the T-shirt, and they've got no ego at all about how the fight gets won. And never fight family. They know you too well.

I didn't realize you'd read much of the Bible." "Proverbs always made a lot of sense to me

People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names. They're convinced that if they give a wizard their name from their own lips it could be used against them. To be fair, they're right.

a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

Bob's knowledge and skills had let me save lives. Mostly my own, maybe, but a lot of other lives, too.

How do you think I know so much? Hundreds of years of assisting wizards? I said. He waved a hand. That too. But I got this whole huge internet thing to play on now, Butters showed me. His grin turned into a leer. And it's like 90% porn!

To the best of my knowledge, sir, Benedict said in an apologetic tone, no one has ever been able to tell my dear cousin anything. At all.

Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence. Remember that, young wizard.

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door.

You'll never value information that comes to you easily.

The last thing the twenty-first century wants to admit is that it might not know everything.

I want answers. I want the truth." "It will hurt," he said. "The truth does that sometimes. I don't care.

Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy.

If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought.

There are a few things everyone should know about Newfoundland. First and foremost is how to pronounce it correctly.