Quotes About Knowledge

even the most commonplace man knows a great deal more concerning any fellow-man than does even the cleverest, shrewdest woman.

Nothing is more strange than truth — nothing, at times, more terrible!

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.

Anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent

Qui Deus a duné esciënce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Prologue des Lais.

Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession, one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity.... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.

But I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

I know more than I know and must learn it from myself.

Thinking that we know more than we do, therefore rejecting what we are given as experience, blinds us to our ignorance, which is the deep darkness where truth abides. And our wealth of ignorance grows and multiplies. Much

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensationalism.

The willingness to indulge in ideological thinking—that is, in thinking that by definition is not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted—is a capitulation no one should ever make.

Many teachers in the humanities have treated it as true that this country was always fundamentally capitalist, intending the word to mean more or less what they think Karl Marx intended by it. In 99.5 percent of cases they have never read a page of Marx, so they have no idea what he was describing.