Quotes About Knowledge

Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication." "Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, like justice, but it can be defined.

What makes you think I am not teaching you? Aside from the fact that you refuse to learn.

De modo que saliste en busca de un mito y encontraste un hombre. Has oído las historias y ahora quieres los hechos reales.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan a pensar. Si le das a alguien un respuesta, lo único que obtiene es cierta información. Pero si le das una pregunta, él buscará sus propias respuestas.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

There was a secret deep within the hidden heart of things. Mandrag never told her that. She did not think he knew. Auri found that secret for herself. She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

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.

I stayed because there was no other place I could learn what I desired. Mere whipping could not keep me away from it." There are things I desire to learn, and I can only learn them here." I handed her the hard, dark piece of wood. "If you want me to leave, you must do worse than welts.

Everyone knows one story, I thought. Everyone knows at least one.

Para parecer inteligente tienes que saber cerrar la boca cuando conviene.

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

No hay nada en el mundo más difícil que convencer a alguien de una verdad desconocida.

El deseo de conocimiento forma al hombre

Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Los hechos pequeños nos llevan al gran conocimiento -recitó-. De igual modo, los nombres pequeños nos llevan a los grandes nombres.

Generalmente, el miedo proviene de la ignorancia.

Things have changed. There are even fewer edges now than there were before. The world is less wild. There are fewer magics, more secrets, and only a handful of people who know the name of the wind.

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 answer

The answer is that 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.

Miró hacia arriba y vio un millar de estrellas centelleando en el oscuro terciopelo de una noche sin luna. Las conocía todas, sus historias y sus nombres. Las conocía bien y le eran tan familiares como, por ejemplo, sus propias manos.

Cuando pido Greysdale en Anker's, saben perfectamente lo que quiero decir —expliqué—. Si pidiera algo que no existiera, alguien podría descubrir el juego. —Y tú ¿cómo lo sabes? —le pregunto Sim a Manet. —Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo —contestó.

I will break your heart over a fucking library card.

Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geist ist der, der denkt und spricht. Unser schlafender Geist aber ist viel mächtiger. Er schaut tief in das Herz der Dinge hinein. Das ist der Teil von uns, der träumt. Er erinnert sich an alles. Er verleiht uns die Intuition. Dein wacher Geist versteht das Wesen der Namen nicht. Dein schlafender Geister versteht es durchaus. Er weiß bereits vieles, was dein wacher Geist nicht weiß.

All the truth is held in stories, you know?