Quotes About Knowledge

my job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.

eight books every week from the time she was two—she had taken more than four thousand books out of that library.

The Giver continued. "I backed off, gave her more little delights. But everything changed, once she knew about pain. I could see it in her eyes." "She wasn't brave enough?" Jonas suggested. The Giver didn't respond to the question. "She insisted that I continue, that I not spare her. She said it was her duty. And I knew, of course, that she was correct.

To be brave came more easily if you knew nothing.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delight, to knowledge, to access to friends and colleagues, a desirable identity through valued work, escape from pain, and a steady income. Not bad, for something so intangible as making and selling dream-by-number kits.

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.

Weddell/Canaba was still an ass at heart, Miles reflected. But he did know his molecular biology. After

When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.

I've never taught anybody before . . ." He smiled up at her, willing confidence into her face, her eyes, her spine. "Look, you can probably kill the first two days just having them demonstrate what they know on each other, while you stand around and say "Um," and "Hm," and "God help us," and things like that.

I'm not so in love with facts as I used to be. Sometimes, they bite.

It's the first article in the constitution. 'Access to information shall not be abridged.

Was that supposed to be a concession? "You can be told the whole truth all day long, but if you won't believe it, then no, I don't suppose you ever will know it." He bared his teeth in a non-smile.

Even as a learned divine it was not his place to judge men's souls. The gods in their time would do so without fail and with much fuller knowledge.

Knowing what I know now…it would be harder. But I would hope…I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need.

The more we divide the Great One, the more knowledge and understanding we uncover from the individual parts. But, at the same time, we drift farther from the abstract perfection of the One.

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However, all that doesn't necessarily mean they are using that knowledge to do anything other than bore their friends to death.