Quotes About Knowledge

Fearing the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.)

Ferdinand Magellan reached the western edge in 1520, confirming for the first time that the earth was flat.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

the more you read God's Word, the more you'll know it, and the more you know it, the more you'll love it—and the more it will define and empower your prayers.

Human souls come here to learn from the experiences of living life. The good, the bad, and the ugly things they couldn't possibly learn by experience in a perfect heaven. Only by coming to earth can they truly gain knowledge of anything negative.

We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz

The wiser a man is, the more he stands ready to be educated.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.

The food of fear is ignorance, Mother Gundring used to say. The death of fear is knowledge. When you study a race of men you find they are just men like any others.

If a man seeks to change the world, he should first understand it.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.

I see you in the library. The way you love the books.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Those who do not read, are no better off than those who cannot read.

One task is to identify what for some time I have referred to as the "epistemic politics" that often sever colonial pasts from their contemporary translations

Each certitude is only sure because of the support offered by unexplored ground.—Michel Foucault, The Politics of Truth, 1997

When in doubt, read books. Educate yourself. Education has always saved me Edward. Learn about the mysteries.

I'll do this," John says. "I'll let you know what's out there, within limits. But I want you to understand that there can't be information about you--that is true--that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing, and the Internet is full of cowboys and sad people making stuff up." He pauses. "I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth.