Knowledge Quote by Alastair Reynolds Download Open image ““No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”” — Alastair Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge Risk
“I do not think there can be any defense for the view that knowledge is ever undesirable.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.” — Kamal Ravikant Copy Share Image
“You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let alone control.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it were a… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There's a vorg loose," Meroka explained. "In case that escaped your attention. Ricasso's doing his bit for Swarm, trying to kill the thing before… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image