Quotes About Knowledge

How many times, he wonders, must a person relearn everything he knows, rediscovering it over and over, and how many coverings must be torn away before he's finally able to truly grasp things, to understand them to the bone? Is a human lifetime long enough? His lifetime, or anyone else's?

It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything.

Yes, of course I know what that means." I have no idea what that means.

Why don't dads know anything? Does he not have eyes and ears?

You're just so mysterious. I hardly know a things about you. The things I know are so unsubstantial, so unsatisfying, like that you eat a chicken sandwich every day at lunch, and you're on the golf team. I guess the one remotely real thing I know about you is you're a good writer, which must mean you have deep reserves of emotion.

You're just so mysterious. I hardly know a thing about you. The things I know are so unsubstantial, so unsatisfying, like that you eat a chicken sandwich every day at lunch, and you're on the golf team. I guess the one remotely real thing I know about you is you're a good writer, which must mean you have deep reserves of emotion.

books are awsome

What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

How do you know all this?" "I'm a fucking librarian.

She has never liked me because I don't have a proper degree. Feral librarians, they call us, as in just wandered out of the woods.

Three questions from my daughter: Why is there salt in the sea? Will you die before me? Do you know how many dogs George Washington had? Don't know. Yes. Please. 36.

Q: How did we end up here? A: We can, if need be, ransack the whole globe, penetrate into the bowels of the earth, descend to the bottom of the deep, travel to the farthest regions of this world, to acquire wealth, to increase our knowledge, or even only to please our eye and fancy. (William Derham, 1711)

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

The global body of Christ is not being trained, equipped, and reaching the fullness of the knowledge of the Son of God because they are only being exposed to the ministry of one man on a consistent basis.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Courses in historiography confront students with the possibility that history, like literature, is about stories and that it necessarily involves philosophical questions, such as how we can actually come to know things.

It is interesting that an investor who has some knowledge of the principles of equity valuations often performs worse than someone with no knowledge who decides to index his portfolio.

Schooling, education and knowledge are not the same thing. One is not a natural result of the other. People grow in knowledge when they learn truths. Teaching and schooling are meaningless when students do not seek wisdom. They are likewise meaningless when that which is taught is not wisdom. In order to learn, people must thirst for knowledge. Force and compulsion cannot accomplish this.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.