Quotes about Knowledge
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.
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Frank Herbert
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
— Lou Holtz
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
— Stephen Hawking
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An old ass knows more than a young colt
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.
— Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?
— Madeleine L'Engle
These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of parables whereby God communicates in terms that the imagination rather than the mind, faith rather than knowledge, can grasp.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.
— Zig Ziglar