Quote by Peter Benchley Download Open image ““Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.”” — Peter Benchley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. - Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.” — Frederich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“We all know so much, and yet at the same time we don't know anything.” — Grace Fiorre Copy Share Image
“Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“A man dies, girl, he isn't any more, least not down here. Respect and all that crap doesn't deserve the dead; it just makes… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
