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Quotes About Knowledge

Truth is light too. Not to see it is to be in darkness, to see it wrong is to be in double darkness.
~ Frank Sheed
We cannot always analyse intimacy; but there is no mistaking it: we know the person quite differently. You do not learn intimacy, or reap the fruit of someone else's. You grow into it. In the Gospels one really can grow into this intimacy with Our Lord, precisely because the evangelists do not obtrude their own personalities. Anyhow, know Him we must.
~ Frank Sheed
to clarify our notion of mystery: which does not mean a truth that we cannot know anything about, but a truth that we cannot know everything about.
~ Frank Sheed
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
~ Frank Zappa
Suddenly, books are arriving every day! So many books, so little time.
~ Frank Zappa
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
~ Frank Zappa
so many books, so little time a
~ Frank Zappa
So many books, so little time
~ Frank Zappa
So many good books to read, so little time!
~ Frank Zappa
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
~ Frank Zappa
So many books, so little time b
~ Frank Zappa
Çok fazla kitap, çok az zaman...
~ Frank Zappa
All these books and all the less time.
~ Frank Zappa
GÅ'upota ma pewien urok- ignorancja nie.
~ Frank Zappa
Atâtea c?rÈ›i, atât de puÈ›in timp.
~ Frank Zappa
Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual space for the physical sciences to continue the march toward knowledge.
~ Franklin Foer
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google with the mission of organizing all knowledge, but that proved too narrow.
~ Franklin Foer
In the realm of knowledge, monopoly and conformism are inseparable perils. Monopoly is the danger that a powerful firm will use its dominance to squash the diversity of competition. Conformism is the danger that one of those monopolistic firms, intentionally or inadvertently, will use its dominance to squash diversity of opinion and taste. Concentration is followed by homogenization.
~ Franklin Foer
Orm remarked that he knew enough about men not to argue with poets concerning their respective merits;
~ Frans G. Bengtsson
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
~ Franz Kafka
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
~ Franz Kafka
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
~ Franz Kafka
I like to make use of what I know
~ Franz Kafka
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
~ Franz Kafka