Knowledge quotes

“Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.”
Ellen Pompeo - Dr. Meredith Grey

“The way of the sword doesn’t belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all.”
Robert Patrick - Piandao

“It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.”
Mako - Uncle

“Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Alan Turing

“Knowledge is power, power is status and status means popular.”
Ncuti Gatwa - Eric Effiong

“A pilot never stops acquiring knowledge. You'll make mistakes, everyone does. Just learn from them.”
Jeff Kober - LT Cook

“What you know is not always important.”
Marielle Heller - Alma Wheatley

“- Amy Edgar: As soon as you recognize one thing, you may’t unknow it.
- Stephanie Kim: I wish to know, it doesn't matter what.”
Naomi Watts - Amy Edgar
Andrea Bang - Stephanie Kim

“- Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
- Death: But He remains silent.
- Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
- Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Bengt Ekerot - Death

“Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.”
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr. Arthur Carrington

“- Betty Schaefer: Oh, the old familiar story. You help a timid little soul cross a crowded street, she turns out to be a multimillionaire and leaves you all her money.
- Joe Gillis: That's the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots.”
Nancy Olson - Betty Schaefer
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis

“- Dr. Alex Brulov: And how do you know what his real character is?
- Constance Petersen: I know. I know.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: She knows. This is the way science goes backward. Who told you what he is? Freud?, or a crystal ball?”
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“- John Ballantyne: That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! This you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.”
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov

“Knowledge is a fount, but unfortunately ignorance is a sea.”
Franco Zeffirelli

“All knowledge is for good. Only the use to which you put it can be good or evil.”
Paul Williams - Virgil

“- Henry: I just wanted to ask how you knew.
- William Shakespeare: Knew what?
- Henry: Everything.
- William Shakespeare: My friend, I don't even know how to keep the slugs out of the Hollyhocks.”
Phil Dunster - Henry, the Student
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“- Oliver Hardy: I knew.
- Stan Laurel: Well, why didn't you tell me you knew?
- Oliver Hardy: I thought you already knew I knew.
- Stan Laurel: How could I know that you knew I knew?
- Oliver Hardy: What would my line be here?
- Stan Laurel: Uhm, now I know you knew, but I thought you knew I knew, but you were pretending not to know I knew.”
John C. Reilly - Oliver
Steve Coogan - Stan

“The unknown. That is where my imagination yearns to venture. And so the question plagues me still: How does a man come to know the unknowable?”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville

“The bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge with no power.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor

“Tear ducts can produce tears for three days without stop.”
Harvey Keitel - Mick Boyle

“Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better.”
Tom Hanks - Bailey

“- Jeannie Ryan: I know who the father is.
- Lafayette aka Hud: You know that, you know a lot. If the baby comes out all white and squishy-like, crying his ass off, then we know Woof is definitely the daddy. But if he comes out all beautiful and chocolate brown, that's mine!”
Annie Golden - Jeannie Ryan
Dorsey Wright - Lafayette aka Hud

“Unknowingly I gave it a criminal brain. With your knowledge of science, you can cure that.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein

“Knowledge is pain.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford

“- Reed Richards: Exposure to a high energy cosmic storm could advance our knowledge of planetary life.
- Victor Von Doom: Same old Reed, always stretching, reaching for the stars.”
Ioan Gruffudd - Reed Richards
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom