Quotes About Knowledge

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. -John 4:8

I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Remember the nature of knowing insider information. It's like a drug. It makes you feel both superior and special. But what if those rumors are false? And even if they are true, you didn't experience them firsthand, and there is most likely a slant to the story you know nothing about.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.

The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will. They'll court you, whisper to you, play behind your eyelids, slip inside and warm your blood, dance along your spine and caress your neck until your flesh rises in bumps.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods, proud in their power over heaven and earth. They grew strong in their knowledge but weak in their wisdom, craving more and still more power, crushing the defenseless. _ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV

Some truths refused to be hidden.

Are we still in Morrighan?" I asked. He half smiled, half grunted. "You don't know your own country's borders? How very royal.

The world would always know, even if men forgot.

Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.

Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.

All ways belong to the world. What is magic but what we don't yet understand? Like the sign of the vine and lion you carry?

The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will.

There was only one person in the village who had actually known Luella Miller. That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.

come back when you know what you're doing.

humane changes with the knowledge

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.