Quotes about Knowledge

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and Practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.