Top 24 The Price Of Knowledge Quotes
#3. The price system is a mechanism for coordinating knowledge; and
Friedrich Hayek
#4. Things had certainly come down a long way since the great days of Faust and Mephistopheles, when a man could gain all the knowledge of the universe, achieve all the ambitions of his mind and all the pleasures of the flesh for the price of his soul.
Douglas Adams
#5. One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
Mary Shelley
#6. I had, of course, sworn never to let the place cross my mind again; but human beings can't help being curious, I suppose, as long as the knowledge doesn't come at too high a price.
Tana French
#7. You've just mentioned the price that has to be paid ... Pride, freedom ... Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don't you think? And don't you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#8. The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
#9. Immortality affords you the opportunity to witness history in the making. Humanity's triumphs and its cruelties, both. It is both a high price to pay and a priceless gift, to carry the weight of that knowledge.
Chloe Neill
#10. All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
#11. I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.
Patricia A. McKillip
#12. A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.
Belsebuub
#13. What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?
Jennifer Donnelly
#14. To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. I suppose half a klick won on some alien rock has a price about the same as a paragraph gained in the storehouse of human knowledge.
Hugh Howey
#16. Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a time as his position on war. The country is entertained, but not engaged. It is drowning in information and thirsty for knowledge.
Charles P. Pierce
#17. There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#18. Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
Benjamin Graham
#19. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck
#21. Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
Irvin D. Yalom
#22. Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Dan Fogelberg
#23. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#24. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.
Jean Lescure
