knowledge

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"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."

"Too Much Information You must empty your mind of garbage to let new garbage in."

"The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide."

"One Size Fits All Life Strategy Smile first.Ask questions later."

"for whenever men are right they are not young"

"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)"

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness."

"Mmm Mmm Good Gimmick Campbell's Soup announced todayit's introducing 'QWERTY' soupfor our more computer literate children.Who are they kidding?They're just relabeling the old Alphabet Soup."

"Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise."

"Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit."

"I only know that I know nothing"

"It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years"has come today."

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves."

"Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge."

"Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human."

"Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love."

"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs."

"Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself."

"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."