Quotes About Knowledge

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

They don't know about art. Maybe I don't know about art myself. Maybe none of our family does, not the way that you do. But that's my point. People don't read art—they read about people.

he spoke from ignorance then, and admits as much today.

Everybody masturbates in libraries. That's what they're for.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

to know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.