All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.”

“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.”

“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”

“People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they’re old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don’t actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”

“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn’t have to work too hard to get it.”

“Sometimes you’re not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that’s okay, because the Earth is generously patient.”

“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”

“Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.”

“Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.”

“People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, ‘Well, are you a Republican or an American?’ The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, ‘I don’t have a knowledge that God exists.’ The atheist says, ‘I don’t have a belief that God exists.’ You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”