Quotes About Knowledge

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

Most libraries held treasures even the librarians did not suspect.

He had four rules concerning action and information. 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. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head.

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

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 anyways.

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

Believing because you think you know is dangerous.

How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.

That you think I have taught you much already only shows how little you knew to begin. You

explain if you could; your people did better if they knew the why as well as the what.

Non puoi sapere sempre tutto- disse Lan con calma- e parte di ciò che sai è sempre sbagliato. Forse perfino la parte più importante. Una porzione di saggezza sta nel rendersi conto di questo. Una porzione di coraggio sta nell'andare comunque avanti.

Now tell me, Loial. What do you know of Be'lal. And briefly, for once. I want your long memory, not your long wind.

Pero no había otra alternativa. A no ser la ignorancia, y eso no lo aceptaba.

Any Sitter would recognize

Yet to achieve greatly, a man must believe something. Belief and knowledge pave the road to greatness. Knowledge is perhaps the most valuable of all. We all seek the coin of knowledge.

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

I am a student of history," she said at last, "a collector of old stories.

Robert Jordan

Bir sava?? kazanman?n ilk ve en önemli kural?, düÅŸman?n?n ne yapaca??n? bilmektir.

Do not question me, she said coldly. You do not know which questions to ask, and you would comprehend less than half the answers if I gave them. Which I will not.

Aes Sedai believed a great many things to be true, and some of them actually were.

As well ask what sort of animal ivory comes from, or what kind of plant grows silk. Unless that comes from an animal, too." "I

A workman should know his tools, and not use them to breaking. The same went for people.

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 anyways." —The Eye of the World