#knowledge

"I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude."

"Excuse The bureaucrat's excuse, 'If I have to make an exception for you,I have to make an exception for everybody else',doesn't apply to me because I exceptional."

"Why We Need Smart People [10w] We need smart people to call other smart people morons."

"Present {Couplet} Our present is the dissipating despair of our past mingled with the promise of our future we hope will last."

"Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her."

"Pale Oak Leaves Scatter Pale oak leaves scatteraround my father's grave."For this I pay $30/month maintenance?"

"Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche."

"I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious."

"God is Great [10w] God found me in a dumpster and made me holy."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation,"intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous."

"Penetration [10w] The difference between truism and an enlightened [10w] is penetration."

"Argument [10w] Argue for the sake of resolutionnot for arguments sake.."

"Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?"

"He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath."

"It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here."

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."