Quotes About Knowledge

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.

How much does anyone ever know about another man's heart?

Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it." Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.

Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Sometimes the people we think we know the best are the ones with secrets we can't even fathom.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

When your head is filled with things that other people don't seem to give much thought to - chymistry, star names, mandrake root, mathematicall magick - it can be hard to make friends. Being short, secretive, and smarter than everybody else doesn't help.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!

Misfortunes make us wise

The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.

Time has effaced all positive knowledge of this aboriginal race;

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

I do love it. But I want you two to have it. Today, you taught me- no, you taught all of us- an important lesson. It is a dark day in the deep sea when we cause innocent creatures to suffer. The professor said we can conquer our fears through knowledge. But you taught us that our fears can best be conquered through compassion. Even we scientists must never forget to have compassion for all living creatures. My compassion for the little creature that once lived in this shell made me very happy.

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

Apollo, who understands all mysteries, says also, "Nothing too much." He is knowledge, Theseus; but She is what he knows.