Quotes About Knowledge

What I do not know is the only thing I know, and in that paradox sits Trixie. I do not know what she was in the fullness of her being, other than a dog, but I know the effect she had on us, and I know that she was both flesh and mystery, and therefore I know that she was something more than I can know.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. Maybe there is wisdom in that recognition. Unfortunately, I have found no comfort in it.

The past was a trove of hard-won wisdom.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge.

Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning.

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

His sense of smell alone brought him more information

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

This next one's by someone named Anatole France. 'To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.'

telepathy," had been part of that fund of knowledge called "instinct.

seemed that books might fade entirely from fashion and that vast fields of information, digitized but rarely accessed, would soon become graveyards of once essential knowledge.

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

Astragalomancy was a method of divining the future or learning hidden knowledge by rolling dice. A ceromancer dropped melted wax into cold water and interpreted the figures thus produced. Halomancy required the reading of the shapes made by casting a handful of salt on a flat surface. A necromancer sought answers by communicating with the dead.

should know. Though

The owner, Julius Shimski, knew everything anyone could know about all things old—coins

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

I despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn't even see it.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

in the posthuman era. They claimed that augmented human brains, injected with a neural lace, would connect with one another by telepathy and almost instantaneously share vast architectures of knowledge and theory that once would have taken years for one person to teach another.

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

Sometimes truth was elusive...

eidetic memory

I'm mainly a philatelist, though I know a lot about Tiffany