Quotes about Knowledge

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.

Where all is known, no narrative is possible.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

They came to know the night skys well. Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients.

Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

Too soon old and too late smart. You dont know anything till it gets here. You told me once that maybe the end of the road has nothing to do with the road. Maybe it doesnt even know there's been a road. You ready?

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.