Quotes About Knowledge

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. —Galileo Galilei

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.

Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most.

It occurred to me then to wonder how much Vivvie knew. Telling her—about Ivy, about Kostas, about what had happened to me—seemed insurmountable.

I wondered if this was what Pandora had felt like the moment she opened the box.

Better the devil you know than the one you don't—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I.

On the surface," he told me, "it appears that the letter outlines what we already know: My grandfather died and left everything to the devil he didn't know, thereby reversing the fortune of many. Why? Because power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I was done knowing better , when I didn't really know anything at all.

Curiosity killed the—Bex!

Though they hadn't posted grades yet, she knew she'd aced all the classes, even if they had been as boring as shit.

He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn't know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.

I don't have a point. I'm just curious. It's an area I don't know much about." He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn't know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.

What people don't understand, they destroy.

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.

His philosophy insists that ethics comes first, that "ethics precedes ontology": the first thing we know is our own being, and the way that we know everything else is through the other person.

Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture's basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains' basic formation.

Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.

Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

Provable truths are what we need.

knew where they were and was sure of it even before he

Roy might know who James Joyce is, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you're trying to act superior.

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.

We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.