Quotes About Knowledge

Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.

I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

Bir ak?l ça??n?n kâfirliÄŸi. DoÄŸruyu görür ve onaylar, ama yanl??? yapar?m.

I see you have them books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across someone who still reads, brother.

How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science.

Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the food is poisonous, it will be injurious to the system. The same happens with reading. If people read good and instructive books at regular and proper times, it will strengthen and nourish them greatly.

An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.

Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

I must have been about twenty-one or twenty-two at the time, and held then many rather wild ideas on the subject of women: conceptions largely the result of having read a good deal without simultaneous opportunity to modify by personal experience the recorded judgment of others upon that matter: estimates often excellent in their conclusions if correctly interpreted, though requiring practical knowledge to be appreciated at their full value.

You know a fact that strikes one very forcibly as one grows older is that some people are intelligent and some are stupid.

I wondered whether I wanted to hear more. The Jean business was long over, but even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.

In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are not necessarily the better for being written down, or publicly announced. Some are, some aren't. As in everything else, good sense, taste, art, all have their place. Saying you prefer to disregard art, taste, good sense, does not mean that those elements do not exist—it merely means you lack them yourself

Even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.

He was again showing recklessness in giving voice to these spasmodic outbursts of worldly knowledge. The champagne perhaps caused this intermittent pulling aside of the curtain that concealed some, apparently considerable, volume of practical information about unlikely people: a little storehouse, the existence of which he was normally unwilling to admit, yet preserved safely at the back of his mind in case of need.

Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.

For lust of knowing what we should not know,' he was fond of intoning, 'we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.