Quotes About Knowledge

all of time—past, present, and future—was complete in the instant of the big bang. Therefore the past and the future were contained in the present. If the future of this timeline was here to be known right now, there might be people gifted enough to see what most could not.

She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.

Katie says, "What do you know that I don't?

Although Woody had studied and learned a great deal, he was well aware that there were vast

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

Those in the Mysterium had different views about to whom and when the truth of them should be revealed. Their

My intellect is God-given. I've a sacred obligation to use it.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

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." He realized that he was

all creatures with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

On Books: Around her, thousands of times and places, people and worlds, from Mars to Egypt to Yoknapatawpha County, were closed up in the bindings of books like the shine trapped under the tarnished veneer of a brass lamp. She could almost feel them waiting to dazzle with the first turn of a page, come alive with brilliant colors and pungent odors and delicious aromas, with laughter and sobbing and cries and whispers. Books were packaged dreams.

The internet is the greatest repository of knowledge in history. But when history is kept in electronic files, the internet is also an efficient memory hole, and truths can be erased as easily as untruths can be fact-checked and sold as the new history.

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

Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.

Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.

then we fail to be wise.

Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.

Knowing the poison is never the same as knowing the killer.

The world is our classroom," he always said

Um leitor é sempre um estudante do mundo.