Knowledge quotes

“- Edsel: I think... you're coming in a little high, man.
- Zeke: Look, man, if there's one thing I know, it's how to drive while I'm stoned. It's like you know your perspective's fucked so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight.”

Eugene Levy - Edsel
Harold Ramis - Zeke

“- Palmer Joss: By doing this, you're willing to give your life, you're willing to die for it. Why?
- Ellie Arroway: For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't know, I think it's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- The Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
- The Wizard of Oz: You can't.”
Ray Bolger - The Scarecrow
Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz

“For if knowledge is power, then a god am... I! Was that over the top? I can never tell.”
Jim Carrey - Riddler

“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they do their nails.”
Cynthia Gibb - Cece

“It's said that a genius learns without studying, and knows without learning. That he is eloquent without preparation, exact without calculation, and profound without reflection.”
Dianne Wiest - Jane Grierson

“- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: The risk is incidental compared to the possibility to posses the great truth of the unknown. There - long cherished laws of nature - simply do not apply. They vanish!
- Dr. Alex Durant: And - life?
- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Life? Life forever!”
Maximilian Schell - Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant

“- Ynyr: Well, I too was young once. I too loved as you do. But your love will be luckier than mine. What I told you was that I knew how to find the fortress and that is by seeking the vision of the blind emerald seer.
- Prince Colwyn: But his place isn't known either.
- Ynyr: It is known to me.”
Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“I know the law. The law doesn't know the streets.”
Treat Williams - Detective Daniel Ciello

“- E. Garner Goodman: How much do you know about the death penalty?
- Adam Hall: I've read everything there is.
- E. Garner Goodman: Then you know nothing.”
Robert Prosky - E. Garner Goodman
Chris O'Donnell - Adam Hall

“A good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of shit.”
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Mark Van Doren: Charlie, from what I understand, it's just a bunch of frauds showing off an erudition they really didn't have. All you have to do is...
- Charles Van Doren: The problem is, Dad, that it seems I was one of those frauds.”
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren

“- Dian Fossey: How big are these night nests?
- Sembagare: I don't know.
- Dian Fossey: You mean you've forgotten.
- Sembagare: How can I forget? I never knew.
- Dian Fossey: Night nests, Sembagare. George Schaller's book says we count the gorillas' night nests to get the census.
- Sembagare: I don't know about gorillas.
- Dian Fossey: Of course...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sigourney Weaver - Dian Fossey
John Omirah Miluwi - Sembagare