Quotes About Knowledge

How does Galdoila know about the reward? i asked. He reads the signs, Grover said. Duh. Of course, I said. Silly me.

Unbelievable, I murmured. After four thousand years, I am still discovering new things. Like how dumb you are, Meg volunteered. No. So you already knew that?

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).

The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead.

Athena always, always has a plan.

But Percy Jackson has always been reliable. You have nothing to fear. Besides, he likes me. I taught him everything he knows." She frowned. "You did?" I found her innocence somewhat charming. So many obvious things she did not know. "Of course. Now let's go up.

Never mind, Leo said. I'm pretty sure pi is, uh, 3.1415 blah blah blah. The number goes on forever, but the sphere has only five rings, so that should be enough, if I'm right. And if you're not? Frank asked. Well, then, Leo fall down, go boom. Let's find out!

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science

You can't read ancient Greek?" I asked. "And you can't tell a strawberry from a yam," she retorted.

I'm a child of Athena, she insisted. And this is an insult to my intelligence

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Knowledge increases responsibility.

She said to him once that when women learned that wall anchors weren't the mysterious objects they thought they were, they would rule the world.

Her éducation sexuelle (it was easier to think of it as something French) was woefully riddled with lacunae.

he wanted a son so he could teach him all the things he knew, as well as how to learn all the things he didn´t know. he couldn´t teach his daughter anything, she knew more than he did already.

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, "the sign that one has acquired one's learning from novels, rather than an education," according to Sylvie.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32