Quotes About Knowledge

Machinery only cared about what a man knew and what he could do with his hands

remember that the doubts you may feel today will be the issues you'll be confidently dissecting tomorrow.

Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.

We write by the light of every book we've read.

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.

What little we knew about grownups didn't seem to cover Grandma.

I was getting long in the leg but still short on experience.

If you can't have fun with Science, what good is it? -Einstein

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts' daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Here's the thing about an apple: it sticks in the throat. It's a package deal: lust and understanding. Immortality and death. Sweet pulp with cyanide seeds. It's a bang on the head that births up whole sciences. A golden delicious discord, the kind of gift chucked into a wedding feast that leads to endless war. It's the fruit that keeps the gods alive. The first, worst crime, but a fortunate windfall. Blessed be the time that apple taken was.

As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

Watching the man, hard-of-hearing, hard-of-speech Patty learns that real joy consists of knowing that human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of beeches in a breeze. As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

The world had become something no schoolchild should be allowed to discover.

How would we ever know aliens? We can't even know birds.

How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

What you love more than your own life must finally belong to you. What you come to know, better than you know your own way home, is yours.

real joy consists of knowing that human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of beeches in a breeze. as certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. there is no knowing for a fact. the only dependable things are humility and looking.

Earth's atmosphere at different times in history." You can't predict the past, Dad. "You can if you don't know it yet.