Quotes About Knowledge

I know everything about you. What you hide. What you dream.

Sir,' said Stephen, 'I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

Even cancer doctors had no clue about how to address the physical agony caused by the disease, he said. "They don't know how to treat it because they haven't been taught how to treat it.

Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Una historia es como un fruto seco - dijo Vashet -. Un necio se la traga entera y se atraganta. Otro necio la tira creyendo que no tiene ningún valor. - Sonrió -. Pero una mujer sabia encuentra la manera de romper la cáscara y comerse el fruto que hay en el interior.

so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things. It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. It gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping mind does. It already knows many things that your waking mind does not.

Wisdom precludes boldness.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan a pensar. Si le das a alguien una respuesta, lo único que obtiene es cierta información. Pero si le das una pregunta,él buscara sus propias respuestas."... -Así, cuanto más difícil es la pregunta, más difícil la búsqueda. Cuanto más difícil es la búsqueda, más aprendemos...

Vorfelan rhinata morie" "El deseo de conocimiento forma a un hombre" - Wil

Generalmente, el miedo proviene de la ignorancia. Una vez que supe cuál era el problema, este pasó a ser solo un problema y no algo que temer.

Demasiados pensamientos, mi Kvothe. Sabes demasiado para ser feliz".