All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Before he’d met Anna, he’d thought he’d known what love was, thought he’d understood about friendship, romance, all o fit, but he hadn’t – not at all. Until he’d held Anna in his arms, until he’d let her see his soul, until he’d heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he’d known nothing.”

“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.”

“Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.”

“And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.”

“In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.”

“So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.–Egwene al’Vere”

“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”

“[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.”

“If knowledge is power, let’s spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.”

“Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. And the star that leads the way is your star.” So Judas lifted up his eyes and saw the luminous cloud, and he entered it.”

“Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.”

“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”

“I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.”

“Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding”