Knowledge quotes

“Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.”
Scarlett Johansson - Lucy

“- Shifu: If you only do what you can do, you'll never be better than what you are.
- Po: But I like who I am!
- Shifu: You don't even know who you are!”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu
Jack Black - Po

“There are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.”
Sandra Bullock - Sally Owens

“- Oliver: Is there anything you don't know?
- Elio: I know nothing, Oliver.
- Oliver: Well, you seem to know more than anyone else around here.
- Elio: Well, if you only knew how little I really know about the things that matter.”
Armie Hammer - Oliver
Timothée Chalamet - Elio

- Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the "Gas 'n' Sip" on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
- Joe: By choice, man.
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler
Loren Dean - Joe

“Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.”
James Purefoy - Colville

“The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others are trying to prove him wrong.”
James Mason - Mr. Jordan

“- Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
- Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
- Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
- Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
- Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
- Timon: Pumbaa,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Simon Wilder: The beauty of the Constitution is that it can always be changed. The beauty of the Constitution is that it makes no set law other than faith in the wisdom of ordinary people to govern themselves.
- Prof. Pitkannan: Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude.
- Simon Wilder:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Gore Vidal - Prof. Pitkannan

“Contrary to popular New York myth, the 'Times' is not omniscient.”
Jeremy Piven - Dean Kansky

“Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.”
Courtland Mead - Uh-Huh

“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