Quotes About Knowledge

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El Conocimiento es Poder" (Francis Bacon)

And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.

Libraries ... are as the shrines where all the relics of ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.

By learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come.

We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly.

For in knowledge man's mind suffereth from sense: but in belief it suffereth from spirit.

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

In the most intellectual city of the ancient world, in its most intellectual age, Socrates, its most intellectual inhabitant, discouraged the study of physics because they engendered uncertainty, and did not augment human happiness. The kind of knowledge which is most connected with human progress now was that least connected with it then.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

In old times, letters were written for people who knew nothing and required to be told everything. Now they are written for people who know everything except the one thing which the letter is designed to explain to them. It is impossible in some respects not to regret the old practice. It is well that each age should write for itself a faithful account of its habitual existence.

A perfectly poetic appreciation of nature contains two elements, a knowledge of facts, and a sensibility to charms. Everybody who may have to speak to some naturalists will be well aware how widely the two may be separated. He will have seen that a man may study butterflies and forget that they are beautiful, or be perfect in the " Lunar theory" without knowing what most people mean by the moon.

It was good that there should be a more diffused knowledge of the material world; and it was good, therefore, that there should be partisans of matter, believers in particles, zealots for tissue, who were ready to incur any odium and any labour that a few more men might learn a few more things.

Why not leave the reading of great books till a great age? Why plague and perplex childhood with complex facts remote from its experience and inapprehensible by its imagination?

Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

Don't ever call the 'bush' the jungle. That marks you as a rank beginner.

People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music.

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.

Stay in school... Even being a rapper you need an education.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.