Quotes About Knowledge

The laws of life and death, as she had learned them, were incomplete. There was more to life, more to death, than medical science had known.

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

At last, after all the tale telling and all the yarn spinning, after the smoke screens and the trick mirrors and the double bluffs, I knew.

Alongside my mispronunciation of hello , good-bye and sorry in seventeen languages, and my ability to recite the Greek alphabet forward and backward (I who have never learned a word of Greek in my life), the phonetic alphabet was one of those secret, random wells of useless knowledge left over from my bookish childhood. I learned it only to amuse myself; its purpose in those days was merely private, so as the years passed I made no particular effort to practice it.

Sapient'? Whatever is that?" " 'Tis a clever word meaning wise. Which is a thing you would know if you was sapient yourself.

that. I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life

my hunger for books was constant.

And is it better to know?" he asked me. "I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

To think a book could have so much paper in it!

But you know it was here? In this house?" Aurelius shoved his hands into the depths of his pockets. His shoulders tightened. "I wouldn't expect other people to understand. I haven't got any proof. But I do know." He sent me a quick glance, and I encouraged him, with my eyes, to continue. "Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. I can't explain it.

I believe you," I repeated, my tongue thick with all the waiting words. "I've had that feeling, too. Knowing things you can't know. From before you can remember." And there it was again! A sudden movement in the corner of my eye, there and gone in the same instant.

And is it better to know? he asked me. I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

She had been able to bear not knowing a thing when she could be sure that God knew, but now...

Like I've said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.

If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

What I've come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell.

I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.

No matter how little a man may add to the fund of human knowledge it's worth the doing, for it's by little bits that we've learned to know so much of our old world.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Oh, wise young judge.

Perhaps he found beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.