Quotes About Knowledge

In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us. We're growing old, dying, without anyone to pass our knowledge, our gifts, on to. We lack successors. And this world is full of Evil which waits for the day none of us are left.

Local nitwits pretended to be well-informed.

A lógica é a mãe de todo o conhecimento.

You know fuck all, Dandelion.' 'Do

Dandelion to Geralt: Change your job and become a priest. You'd be decent with your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people's nature and every single thing. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem. I know very few prists who do. Become a priest and stop complaining about yourself.

Knowing Ones study the causes of such phenomena. For us witchers the knowledge that concentrated will can cause such phenomena is enough. That and the knowledge to fight them.

Ignorance"—Regis smiled—"is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn't know or has doubts it's best to seek advice…

Although the chancellor's orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Esa sería la primera prueba que llegase a mi conocimiento de que la incredulidad tenga alguna clase de poder.

Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources.

Everything has been, everything has happened. And everything has already been written about. Vysogota of Corvo

You can shove such a proposition a d'yeabl aep arse.' The devil demonstrated his knowledge of the Old Language.

for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Nulla è come sembra.» «Un'affermazione ineccepibile. Che ci conduce inesorabilmente alla conclusione che noi, Ciri, non sappiamo nulla l'uno dell'altra. Conosciamo solo le apparenze e quelle ingannano.»

Do you know, Ciri, what university studies give a person?' 'No. What?' 'The ability to make use of sources.

Benché una disposizione del rettore proibisse a studenti e baccellieri di bere e gozzovigliare prima del calar del crepuscolo, a Oxenfurt si beveva e si gozzovigliava sempre, ventiquattr'ore su ventiquattro, perché è noto che, se c'è qualcosa che può aumentare la sete ancor più del processo di assimilazione del sapere, è la proibizione completa o parziale di bere.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything.

There is nothing worse than chauvinism underpinned by scholarship.

You often disguise gaps in your education with sarcastic or exaggerated simplifications which you consider witty.

Neznanje - nasmeši se Regis - nije opravdanje za nepromišljeno delanje. Kad se nešto ne zna, kad ?ovek sumnja, onda je dobro da se posavetuje...

L'ignoranza non costituisce una giustificazione per gli atti sconsiderati. Quando non si sa, quando si hanno dei dubbi, è bene chiedere consiglio.

We shan't know,' Cahir chipped in, 'until we find out.

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.