Quotes About Knowledge

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time? Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember? No. I was unconscious.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

Confidence is ignorance," advised the centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.

If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

I am exactly the right age for this project," said Minerva. "I'm young enough to believe in magic and old enough to understand how it works.

THE BOOKE OF THE PEOPLE. BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR MAGICKS AND LIFE RULES.

Everyone nodded. Technically it was correct, as they did know it now.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable

Know thine enemy

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Science was taking the magic out of everything.

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?

Es konnte nie schaden zu wissen, wo sich das ortsansässige Getier so rumtrieb.

Selbstvertrauen ist nichts anderes als Unwissenheit. Wenn man sich stark fühlt, dann nur, weil es etwas gibt, das man nicht weiß.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.