Knowledge Quotes - Page 16

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.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

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

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

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

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!

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

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.

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.

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.

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

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)