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5a6d98c Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. humor ignorance knowledge Eoin Colfer
1f3247a Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. future knowledge Rick Riordan
1bd74b6 "Jace?" "Yeah?" "How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?" The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a birdcage, all black metal and decorative bits of gilt. "I guessed," he said, latching the door behind them. "It seemed like the most likely explanation." "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." He pressed a button in the wall, and the elevator lurched into action with a vibrating groan that she felt all through the bones in her feet. "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put a hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" The other ten percent," she said, and they rode the rest of the way down to the street in silence." 90 elevator shadowhunter clary-fray jace-wayland knowledge blood Cassandra Clare
878af63 For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. compassion learning inspiration science philosophy inspirational knowledge values Neil deGrasse Tyson
25cc9e2 It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. knowledge Hilary Mantel
b7f480c All knowledge hurts. wisdom disillusionment experience knowledge Cassandra Clare
3be0613 Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching Hermann Hesse
13d2d21 I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. understanding self-awareness seekers self-discovery search instinct knowledge Hermann Hesse
cf5fd31 "I mean, you could claim that reason skepticism hermione-granger logic knowledge J.K. Rowling
9b51b25 For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. understanding religion science truth delusion knowledge Carl Sagan
c17b903 If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next--if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions--you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. women knowledge Margaret Atwood
120447a Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. good knowledge power Veronica Roth
8e03dc2 " "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye." laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values Dorothy Parker
43fff12 What is now proved was once only imagined. english-poet inspirational willpower knowledge William Blake
23095a8 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. science open-mindedness willful-ignorance ignorance knowledge Charles Darwin
36ab0de Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. existence western knowledge horror Cormac McCarthy
8e8a6b8 It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. irony knowledge Alexander McCall Smith
a33ec2c To learn which questions are unanswerable, and : this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. policy certainty humility knowledge Ursula K. Le Guin
66dfa57 Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass. knowledge teaching P.C. Cast
59337d6 Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth kindness goodness love truth wisdom inspirational generosity anger knowledge Siddh?rtha Gautama
d2186d6 Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. madness knowledge Gustave Flaubert
70ab1bc Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. libraries history education wisdom civilization knowledge Carl Sagan
2e69861 The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer ... They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth ... [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all ... what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth!... Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods? earth heaven intelligence sight creation-myth gods knowledge Anonymous
de83024 Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. happiness life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational forgiveness knowledge Wil Zeus
e19ec87 Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge... is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. empathy inspirational accountability opinion ego knowledge Bill Bullard
0ab0fdd ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. knowledge Neil deGrasse Tyson
72dc345 "You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts." magic love fahrenheit-451 knowledge Ray Bradbury
1f8a94e No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. gains understanding progress illusion future science hope inspirational knowledge Sigmund Freud
3beb4f0 When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. feeling intuition knowledge Kahlil Gibrán
5a63fbb "We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the theory of relativity worked out between 1905 and 1916. We also know the basic rules governing the subatomic particles and their interrelationships, since these are very neatly described by the quantum theory worked out between 1900 and 1930. What's more, we have found that the galaxies and clusters of galaxies are the basic units of the physical universe, as discovered between 1920 and 1930. ...The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong... My answer to him was, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong. literature science knowledge Isaac Asimov
3730640 Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . think read knowledge John Adams
8ec15b1 You can only be afraid of what you think you know. fear inspirational knowledge Jiddu Krishnamurti
87d3de8 Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality. responsibility morality knowledge evil Ayn Rand
5e3b776 Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. knowledge Ursula K. Le Guin
a9f57ee Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. reading knowledge Henry James
0440f03 "Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. 6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them. 7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound. 8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic. 9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. 10. Plays the violin well. 11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. 12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law." strengths weaknesses talents skills sherlock-holmes detectives knowledge Arthur Conan Doyle
c3c38c9 Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. learning education knowledge teaching Plato
f1e88e8 Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. daring risk courage seeking uncertainty questions knowledge Anne Rice
f1844a5 I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. siddhartha knowledge question Hermann Hesse
cc4c255 To light a candle is to cast a shadow... good equilibrium taoism knowledge evil Ursula K. Le Guin
58ae38f Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. existence science philosophy empirical knowledge Arthur Schopenhauer
3a3e1e0 The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. meaning religion god truth purpose knowledge Carl Sagan
fdf04ca Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. firm intensity ignorance knowledge Michel de Montaigne
dc6236b The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. science sagan knowledge Carl Sagan
0c46ec9 The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. problems knowledge Ludwig Wittgenstein
9828ab7 I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS? science philosophy inspirational connectedness perspective knowledge Neil deGrasse Tyson
0221406 I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. wisdom plato socrates knowledge Plato
9513286 What an author doesn't know could fill a book. books knowledge Holly Black
ef7c513 Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. knowledge Jim Butcher
795feab The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. seeing explanations knowledge John Berger
a0541e3 Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). skill knowledge habit Stephen R. Covey
9cce14b "You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after , , , , , and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than understanding science einstein aristotle crick francis-crick james-d-watson james-watson max-planck planck polymath watson charles-darwin darwin intellect knowledge isaac-newton newton Richard Dawkins
793b39b Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship free slavery weak worship dream joy future fear heart inspirational development feeling reform facts purpose gods burden threat knowledge thought Robert Green Ingersoll
30f58ba They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. identity knowledge Joseph Conrad
3a407cd "Interviewer: Didn't want to believe? Druyan: science truth sagan astronomy carl-sagan belief atheism knowledge Ann Druyan
0688bf0 We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. work inspiration education life knowledge C.S. Lewis
9a978f9 His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. knowledge J.K. Rowling
6fac725 Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? wisdom knowledge T.S. Eliot
59c387e You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. philosophy inspirational knowledge Oscar Wilde
4e88dcd Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. poetry knowledge George Eliot
d242bd2 Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. science truth scientific-method facts knowledge Jules Verne
3d333db When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. knowledge Orson Scott Card
2cb0c11 "I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has." knowledge harry-dresden Jim Butcher
cbe0038 The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know. nature science mistake knowledge Robert M. Pirsig
0473612 You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know. understanding remembrance knowledge memory Amy Tan
dd3b490 The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care mortality bravery morality death science inspirational cancer doctors belief medicine atheism inevitable knowledge honor Lance Armstrong
7e89d67 "Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous." think knowledge Garth Nix
911ba01 For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... fahrinheit jackets many bradbury so ray more dust destroyed nothing pages to person knowledge dead Ray Bradbury
91aaf68 Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. enlightenment wealth education treasures heritage knowledge Henry David Thoreau
4ecdf74 If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. self-assurance direction knowledge Terry Pratchett
3b22976 Some people still think knowledge is power. palahniuk knowledge power Chuck Palahniuk
30f8134 "Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled." existence knowledge Albert Camus
7c1fea4 It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. wisdom knowledge George Eliot
fd1f269 Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past. Things that stab them right between the eyes. Old grudges. Old shame. Regrets that steal your sleep and leave you awake until you fear for your own sanity. Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me? We all go through that. It's humanity's brotherhood of misery. wisewords knowledge Sherrilyn Kenyon
b88cd8d Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. poverty work knowledge memory George Eliot
0b2dd87 The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. humor knowledge Joanne Harris
bb119d4 "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of metaphor history science illimitable inexplicability principia solidity origin-of-species possessions intellectual business biology charles-darwin goal justification darwin infinite knowledge ocean isaac-newton newton unknown Thomas Henry Huxley
dad2877 Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. understanding knowledge David Baldacci
0bb92fb The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love. education happiness heart hope intelligence life love moon philosophy truth twinkle wisdom inspirational reflection knowledge moonlight Debasish Mridha
efce848 Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them. knowledge Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
41fb2e6 I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. responsibility knowledge Jim Butcher
ba43f85 WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. truth squeak knowledge evil Terry Pratchett
ed3b8c1 Ignorance is fatal. death wisdom ray fatal ignorance knowledge Ray Bradbury
153ce58 Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. education informed rational debate perspective ignorance knowledge Carl Sagan
f8a971d "The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. , the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." , a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal." science philosophy knowledge Robert Anton Wilson
71f8972 Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. murder women learning education hypatia-of-alexandria philosophers dialectics skills superiority greatness suppression knowledge Iain Pears
423deb7 I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. unity world siddhartha knowledge Hermann Hesse
07628cd Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? mankind futility stupidity humanity learning intelligence wisdom foolishness knowledge H. Rider Haggard
e6d3d72 ...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes. [ ] chaldeans persians priesthood protestant sect teutons clergy romans hindu reformation hinduism greeks priests monopoly science-vs-religion muslim islam knowledge John Adams
b17a952 The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds writing wisdom art-criticism music-criticism music-journalism critics knowledge writers insight Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1e57939 I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. existence science cosmos cosmology informed knowledge Carl Sagan
41ca4b8 It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. understanding self knowledge Joseph Conrad
adff56b He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. science knowledge William Blake
db91d90 Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. knowledge Michel de Montaigne
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. happy fun friends books funny quote friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
8656dbe The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence. wisdom knowledge A.S. Byatt
a496d57 This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning. knowledge James Herriot
b04a0ac My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. learning self-awareness knowledge Henry David Thoreau
f856dab You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. fathers relationships sons generations knowledge Marilynne Robinson
f6c5f5a If we're lucky, we find the one person who will hold our trust and keep it sacred and safe against all attackers. That one soul who will restore our belief that people are decent and kind, and that life, while messy, is still the most wondrous gift anyone can know. But until that day comes, we have to try and remember that home isn't a specific place or person. It's a feeling we carry inside ourselves. That touch of the divine that lights a fire inside us that burns out the past and consumes the pain until nothing is left but a warmth that allows us to love others more than ourselves. A warmth that only grows when we do right even while others seek to do us wrong. Peace is knowing that one life, no matter how trivial it seems, touches thousands of others, and learningto respect that about all people. While you may not mean much to the world, to those who know and love you, you are their entire world. And it is knowledge that no one can hurt you unless you allow them to. The only power they have isn't something they're taken or demanded. It's what we give them by choice. And while it is imperative that we value the lives of others, it is equally important to value our own. wisdom wisewords knowledge Sherrilyn Kenyon
8351a8f The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed! wisdom v-63 knowledge fools Anonymous
51d872a When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters. responsibility deportation denunciation personal-responsibility nazis genocide civilization hitler willful-ignorance cowardice knowledge guilt evil Iain Pears
b18b1e1 There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom. inspirational knowledge Rachel Caine
d7467bc Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. life philosophy knowledge Leo Tolstoy
9bc723f "Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?" the-two-towers knowledge J.R.R. Tolkien
a2d1f3f There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. learning siddhartha self knowledge Hermann Hesse
3fcdea0 Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions. knowledge Brandon Mull
894a03a We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed. snooping the-blind-assassin margaret-atwood knowledge Margaret Atwood
8c7a069 Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. warrior knowledge Christopher Paolini
f5ae23f The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul Robin Hobb
ce74eeb We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become. search seeker knowledge Louis L'Amour
24486c4 I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. poetry life knowledge H.P. Lovecraft
a3263ca A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. seduction curiosity knowledge vice Umberto Eco
d1e7fde ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? writing knowledge Lloyd Alexander
3a499c5 Of course. You get everything from books. reading wicked knowledge Gregory Maguire
4a3f558 She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. fiction truth knowledge Henry James
0c0ce2c Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. money value knowledge Louis L'Amour
a1c9762 "When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands-- But the scene is grey." good-and-evil morality wisdom black-and-white gray grey white knowledge Stephen Crane
1653bb3 A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. perfection words literature reading nature knowledge Henry David Thoreau
f546b4a To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed. freyre listening knowledge Sarah J. Maas
6a0ced1 Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased. knowledge Jack London
342360f People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know. awareness knowledge Anthony Burgess
7a31130 What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists. libraries reading knowledge Archibald MacLeish
8860bc4 Science is often misrepresented as 'the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.' Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world. science knowledge Jared Diamond
a261577 Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. understanding knowledge Michel de Montaigne
505e7cf "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." wisdom uncertainty knowledge Frank Herbert
b439272 One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. knowledge Agatha Christie
db4b189 The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. death hindsight caring knowledge Joanne Harris
2c20254 It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. uselessness knowledge Tom Stoppard
7336296 I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know. knowledge Cecelia Ahern
4ed534a You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. wisdom knowledge Robert Jordan
e8e0067 You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I've learned that it isn't necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It's a game, right? It's like being paid for dreaming. dreaming knowledge Tom Robbins
20608b8 Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy. knowledge Ian McEwan
8074dbb Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. ignorance knowledge Louis L'Amour
1e9e391 Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one's perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay's knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored? Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain? or the heart? Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay's knee. women love knowledge intimacy Virginia Woolf
15e51da A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space. eros-the-bittersweet thinking knowledge thought Anne Carson
f4cc640 Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance. romance love foundation intensity respect knowledge Bell Hooks
873c0b7 Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. truth games knowledge Umberto Eco
a913409 What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. pain lies loss learning philosophy philosophy-of-life ignorance knowledge Margaret Atwood
9aaa716 If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant. knowledge university John Henry Newman
9e952f3 When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do. trust truth wisdom maxim guidance sea knowledge Paulo Coelho
0df7589 My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought. Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind. wisdom in-arabian-nights sufis sufism knowledge stories Tahir Shah
a0365ac Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. mankind time man futility learning fallen-nations inevitability nations passing-of-time materialism knowledge H. Rider Haggard
5caadb9 "Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you want to." "But God," quotes Eve, putting out feelers for an , clever girl, "expressly forbids us to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge." "Ah yessssss, God ... But God gave us life, did He not? And God gave us desire, did He not? And God gave us taste, did He not? And who else but God made the damned apples in the first place? So what else is for but to the we ?" Eve folds her arms schoolgirlishly. "God expressly forbade it. Adam said." The snake grins through his fangs, admiring Eve's playacting. "God is a nice enough chap in His way. I daresay He means well. But between you and The Tree of Knowledge, He is terribly insecure." "Insecure? He made the entire bloody universe! He's omnipotent." "Exactly! Almost neurotic, isn't it? All this worshiping, morning, noon, and night. It's 'Oh Praise Him, Oh Praise Him, Oh Praise the Everlassssting Lord.' I don't call that omnipotent. I call it pathetic. Most independent authorities agree that God has never sufficiently credited the work of virtual particles in the creation of the universssse. He raises you and Adam on this diet of myths while all the really interesting information is locked up in these juicy apples. Seven days? Give me a break." myth religion god tree-of-knowledge serpent apple snake knowledge David Mitchell
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