Quotes About Knowledge

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

When One Teaches, Two Learn

Writing can be learned, but not taught.

Of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

first phase is referred to as the cognitive phase. During this phase, the teacher is attempting to understand the strategy, but not using it with any utility or effectiveness.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

You read too much and understand too little.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.

You can never know everything," Lan said quietly, "and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.

Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature.

Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that "everyone knew" deserved close examination. Being

most mistakes made by rulers came from not knowing history; they acted in ignorance of the mistakes others had made before them.

The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.