Knowledge
Quotes - The Possession of Knowledge
“The
possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is
always more mystery.”
―
Anais Nin
“All
knowledge hurts.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“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.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Demian
“Doctor
Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the
world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from
Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
―
Russell T. Davies
“Last
night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“For
me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in
delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
―
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“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.”
―
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I
mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in
it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
―
J.K. Rowling
“Knowledge
is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So
knowledge itself is not evil.”
―
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“People
don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“The
surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is
not to overstep them.”
―
Giacomo Leopardi
“Inventory:
"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.”
―
Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“I
have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't
agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful
it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how
beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a
dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty
that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I
may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the
beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he
sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which
also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one
centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure,
also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to
attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see
the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the
lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the
science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a
flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
―
Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of
Richard P. Feynman
“Knowledge,
like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
―
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
“The
eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
―
Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
“It
takes a very long time to become young.”
―
Pablo Picasso
“Beware
of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no
wiser than before.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Whatever
in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“To
learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is
most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“I
am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an
atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually
unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one
didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I
finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason.
Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God
doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste
my time.”
―
Isaac Asimov
