Quotes About Knowledge

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

The real universe is always one step behind logic.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.

How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.

Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.

Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock—as she had learned at school.

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.

He was aware now of many things—of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.