I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Edward Johnston
Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
More people are finding satisfaction in wealth, but real wealth is knowledge; knowledge is organized in books, and books are available in the libraries.
Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.
Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with no...
Real experience is knowledge
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
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.
You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they...
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we...
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important...
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
How would you ever come to know God's name for that star? – You wouldn't, He holds it close, the boy said. It's a thing you'll never know. It's a lesson that sometimes we're meant to settle for...
I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.
Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.
She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out.
Perhaps some particles move backwards in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are. There are many things we...
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained...
Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
The study of medicine consists on the one hand in storing up in the mind an enormous number of facts, which are simply memorized without any real knowledge of their foundations, and on the other hand...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...