Quotes About Knowledge

We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.

We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

I don't underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.

Un asno viejo sabe más que un potro. A. Perez. An old ass knows more than a young colt.

just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.

Sextus [Empericus] identifies three different types of philosophy. There are Dogmatists, who think that they know the truth. There are Academic Sceptics, who think the truth can never be known. Then there are Sceptics, who retain an open mind, not thinking truth is yet discovered, but prepared to accept that it might be.

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica')

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.