To keep power, you need knowledge.
Fear can be expelled with knowledge.
I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books… these books are my paddles.[explains the reason why he needs more than five books]
We have lost more knowledge than we ever had.
This is where we get into trouble. You’re meant to know only as much as you can handle. When you wander outside of your realm is when we end up fighting.
Knowledge is power, power is status, and status means popular.
Knowledge is a paradox. The more one understands, the more one realizes the vastness of his ignorance.
I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about. [to Alice]
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.[to Claudia][Was wir wissen, ist ein Tropfen. Was wir nicht wissen, ein Ozean.]
You can think what you want. Opinion is the wilderness between knowledge and ignorance.
What cannot be known hollows the mind. Fill it not with guesswork.[to Theo]
Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
