Quotes About Knowledge

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

Why be puzzled by that? From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Con not, that thou be not conned.

We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights.

Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.

But I know many things I can't say.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

it is always a mistake to know an author

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found...

In the early days writing in Paris I would invent not only from my own experience but from the experiences and knowledge of my friends and all the people I had known, or met since I could remember, who were not writers. I was very lucky always that my best friends were not writers and to have known many intelligent people who were articulate.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

You cannot know about it unless you have it.