“Know what you are talking about.”— John Paul II Related Quotes “Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”– Mary Astell “Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”– Vincent Van Gogh “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”– Terry Eagleton