Quotes About Knowledge

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Always desire to learn something useful

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it.

Complete knowledge of any alien physiology could be obtained within minutes by Educator Tape, but the skill to use that knowledge—especially in surgery—came only with time.

This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

The thing about people who want to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.

Se não tenho respostas verdadeiras é porque ainda não sabemos que perguntas devemos fazer. Nossos instrumentos são inúteis; nossa metodologia, defeituosa; nossas motivações, egoístas.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It

now in her eyes the knowledge that this was futile, that this had always been futile

O mapa foi a primeira forma de desinformação, pois o que era um mapa senão uma maneira de enfatizar certas coisas e tornar outras invisíveis? Sempre éramos mandadas de volta ao mapa, para memorizar seus detalhes.

Can you not distinguish truth from fiction? Or were you never taught the difference?

some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.