Quotes About Knowledge

When force closes the mouth of inquiry," Duncan said, "that is the death of civilization.

Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.

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. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors but the more doors you opened, the more certain you became of which door to open next. Finally, a door would open into a place you recognized. Then you could say: Ahhhh, this explains everything.

Te advierto que la ignorancia se convierte fácilmente en histeria.

Truth suffers from too much analysis. —ANCIENT FREMEN SAYING

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning. For a few moments he allowed himself merely to resonate, making no demands, asking no questions.

O sábio se automodela, o tolo só vive para morrer.

Le fait de savoir que le piège existe équivaut au premier pas pour lui échapper.

First-hand access to human mistakes was his greatest strength now. Knowledge of mistakes taught him long-term corrections. He had to be constantly aware of consequences. If consequences were lost or concealed, lessons were lost.

Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Stock your minds and you can move through the world resplendent.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

Teaching is bringing the news.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else, but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. [...] Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish (...) it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it... you might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I have no notion of what he's talking about. I have to lie and say, I do. He says, You do know he was perhaps the greatest satirist in English literature. I thought he was Irish.

There are bars of Pear's soap and a thick book called Pear's Encyclopedia, which keeps me up day and night because it tells you everything about everything and that's all I want to know.

My Stuyvesant students were not satisfied. Why was I telling them stories of women from the Islands and Puerto Ricans and Greeks when the world was going to hell? Because the women from the Islands believe in education. You can demonstrate and shake your fists, burn your draft cards and block the traffic with your bodies, but what do you know in the end? For the ladies from the Islands there is one relevance, education. That is all they know. That is all I know. That is all I need to know.

The secret to understanding Citron was that ... he knows thirty percent of what he thinks he knows

The man who does not see God may have vast knowledge of this or that section of being, but he is like a man who should know all about the eye never having seen a face.

It would be a strange God who could be loved better by being known less. Love of God is not the same thing as knowledge of God; love of God is immeasurably more important than knowledge of God; but if a man loves God knowing a little about Him, he should love God more from knowing more about Him: for every new thing known about God is a new reason for loving Him.