Quotes About Knowledge

Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.

Of course I am extra strong, but those who try know that strength and knowledge come with doing. I just love to experiment, to work, and to prove out things, so that ranch life and "roughing it" just suit me.

Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.

Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.

book. I understood early that I'd find what I needed in books, if not in her. She gave me that. But

The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

Là dove si danno alle fiamme i libri, si finisce per bruciare anche gli uomini»,

Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

We learn nothing by being right.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.

The world of books is still the world.

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

True knowledge comes only through suffering

O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.

Sentarse tranquilamente bajo la luz de una lámpara con un libro abierto entre las manos, y conversar íntimamente con los hombres de otras generaciones, es un placer que traspasa los límites de lo imaginable

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. —QUENTIN CRISP