You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

...you gotta go there to know there.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for...

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

Real experience is knowledge

We are only what we know.

There is nothing that cannot be explained if one has access to a library with good reference books.

Remember that in our inability to see, the move of the prestidigitator becomes magic.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

The researcher's gaze often found more than he wished to find.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

blissful as ignorance

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.