Knowledge Quotes

"To understand the problem you must first inhabit it."

"One place comprehended can make us understand other places better."

"The pursuit of knowledge is never-ending and always rewarding."

"The unfamiliar is not the incomprehensible, though the two are often confused."

"We're always sort of fragments until we really understand what we're about."

"If your head is full of stuff you're trying to hold onto, there's no room for anything new."

"Language shapes how we think about reality."

"We've kept you alive in this world for seventeen years and you haven't read a newspaper for a month?"

"The deeper you go into anything, the deeper you see the mysteries."

"The best way to understand any person is through their work."

"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing how to use it."

"Knowledge is the key to understanding the world."

"What is there to know about a man except ideas he had? There is nothing. We are made of dust."

"The modern mind is perplexed by facts that don't fit into its categories."

"Memory is unreliable but essential to meaning-making."

"One should as soon expect to find the moral of the Interpretation of Dreams in a cookbook."

"Intellectual sophistication is the capacity to be troubled by paradox."

"The intellect is at its best when it ceases to analyze and simply observes."

"The pursuit of knowledge is endless; wisdom is knowing when to stop."

"Knowledge without experience is just theory."

"Knowledge multiplies when shared but diminishes when hoarded."

"You cannot invent a unique sentence structure unless you know what has been written before."

"A powerful idea communicates something about human nature that we recognize as true but had not quite articulated before."

"Knowledge is power only if you know how to use it."

"I have this disease late in life...it's forgetting the words that I want to say."

"Our awareness is not just a passive mirror of the world; it is an active appreciation of the world."

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

"Knowledge is power, but power is what you do with knowledge."

"Complexity is not a way of getting at truth—it's often a way of obscuring it."