Quotes about Knowledge
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
- Margaret Atwood
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
- Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
- Margaret Atwood
Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination. So it was better not to know some things. Otherwise your petals would get scattered.
- Margaret Atwood
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
- Margaret Atwood
Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.
- Margaret Atwood
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
- Steve Jobs
Science should be on tap, not on top.
- Winston Churchill
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
- Thomas Merton
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
- Carl Sagan