Quotes About Knowledge

Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

The more I heard, the less I knew.

He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.

14 A discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. 15 All the days of the oppressed are miserable, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

La lectura, asegura, ampliaría mi experiencia del mundo. Las ideas que se encuentran en los libros serios darían profundidad a mis pensamientos sobre cada decisión que tomo.

Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.

I told her that I was a University of One, Una University, and that all day she should listen to me talk.... But when I began to expatiate, it amazed me how little I knew, and that, really, it did not require the day, but only the morning to get through it all.

And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room into the sunny street), and in the next second I already knew for sure that God exists and that God is the Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, and not some other God. I call this moment the greatest miracle because this precise knowledge came to me not through reason (I know this for sure) but by some other way, and I am unable to explain this moment rationally ....

Nos conformamos con estar convencidos de que el saber existe y de que el Otro lo posee, y en consecuencia no queremos saber nada de nada: tan sólo queremos, por lo general, ser amados por el saber y por el Otro que supuestamente lo posee.

It is women who possess knowledge of dreams and of realms beyond the earthly experience.

most of the available material on female pollution has been gathered by men from other men

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.

Depth of knowledge combined with good judgment is worth a lot. Depth

The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.

THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.