Knowledge Quotes

The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.

~ Paula Gruben

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

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

~ Confucius

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

~ Abigail Adams

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

~ Bonaventure

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.

~ Cameron Conaway

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

~ David Brin

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)

~ Anonymous

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

~ Michael Crichton

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of thought and responsibility in the visible world. If that be so, the appearance of the human mind has been so far the ultimate stage in the awakening of the world; and all that has gone before, the striving of myriad centers that have taken the risks of living and believing, seem to have all been pursuing, along rival lines, the aim now achieved by us up to this point. They are all akin to us, for all these centers - those which led up to our own existence and the far more numerous others which produced different lines of which many are extinct - may be seen engaged in the same endeavor towards ultimate liberation. We may envisage then a cosmic field which called forth all these centers by offering them a short-lived, limited, hazardous opportunity for making some progress of their own towards an unthinkable consummation. And that is also, I believe, how a Christian is placed when worshiping God.

~ Michael Polanyi

The truest knowledge is the fear of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choosing comfort over knowledge is a sign of a weak mind..

~ Danilo Vukovljak

If there is knowledge we shall seek, we must search for the excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.Luke 11:52

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge.

~ Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

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

~ Maya Angelou

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

~ L. Frank Baum

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

~ Dan Brown

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

~ Rick Riordan

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

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

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

~ Hilary Mantel

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

~ Isaac Asimov

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

~ Anaïs Nin

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

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

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Alexander Pope

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

~ Ronald E. Osborn

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

~ Margaret Mitchell

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.

~ Janet Fitch

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

~ Charles Darwin

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

~ P.c. Cast

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

~ Lao Tzu

The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth … [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all … what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth!… Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods?

~ Anonymous

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

~ Jane Austen

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

~ Bram Stoker