Robert Stone Quotes

Knowledge is almost annoying.

When I know too much I get bored too fast.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

The more you know the less the better.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

I know too much and not enough

There are things you don't want to know you can do

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

The more I know, the less I understand

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.