All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

“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!”

“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.”

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

“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)”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”

“Jace?””Yeah?””How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?”The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a birdcage, all black metal and decorative bits of gilt. “I guessed,” he said, latching the door behind them. “It seemed like the most likely explanation.””You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.”He pressed a button in the wall, and the elevator lurched into action with a vibrating groan that she felt all through the bones in her feet. “I was ninety percent sure.””I see,” Clary said.There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put a hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. “What the hell was that for?”The other ten percent,” she said, and they rode the rest of the way down to the street in silence.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”