Quotes About Knowledge

All I know about grammar is its infinite power.

Nei momenti difficili, mi era stato insegnato fin dall'infanzia, leggi, impara, datti da fare, rivolgiti alla letteratura. Essere informati significava non perdere il controllo.

They tend to prefer the theoretical to the observable, and to dismiss that which might be learned empirically as "anecdotal".

I am not in the least an intellectual, which is not to say that when I hear the word intellectual I reach for my gun, but only to say that I do not think in abstracts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Syntopicon, which sets forth "The 102 Great Ideas of Western Man

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

He had never lied to me, as far as I knew. But did I know anything?

She saw. And, painful though the knowledge was, it was also a relief. She had not failed with Arthur, nor had Morgan stolen him from her. He had belonged to Morgan long before she came into his life.

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

Knowledge is currency here....

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school

They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

My part is at an end. I would like to think that theirs ends as happily. But that knowledge is beyond me now. I am subject to a different kind of chemistry. Evaporating blithely into the bright air, my own mystery approaches, and I see no phantoms, predict no futures, even the blissful present barely glimpsed – through a glass, darkly.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance. And then, you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts, but lived them.