knowledge

"In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out."

"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."

"To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence."

"Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation."

"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

"It takes a very long time to become young."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."

"You don’t know her like I do, because you don’t know her like I don’t. It’s true, I don’t know her at all. What’s she like?"

"Athens, Texas Haiku Blackeyed Pea Capital of the World.Yup, just another shithole."

"At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched."

"I can't protect you from knowledge."

"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."

"What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is."

"... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos."

"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."

"Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing."

"The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do."

"Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full."