Michael Pollan Quotes

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

It is not hard to get men to agree when the facts are known.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

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

You have to really know what you're saying.

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

The moment you know you know you know.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.