Quotes About Knowledge

Science is a monopoly, not because public education is badly organized, but by its very nature; non-scientists have access only to the results, not to the methods, that is to say they can only believe, not assimilate.

A village idiot, in the literal sense, who really loves the truth, even when he only babbles, is in his thinking infinitely superior to Aristotle. He is infinitely nearer to Plato than Aristotle ever was.

Nöyryys on samaa kuin tieto, ettei siinä mitä sanotaan minäksi ole lainkaan sellaista energiaa, jonka avulla pääsisimme kohoamaan. Kaikki mitä minussa on arvokasta, on poikkeuksetta peräisin muualta; eikä se ole lahjaa vaa lainaa, joka on alituisesti uudistettava. Kaikki mitä minussa itsessäni on, on poikkeuksetta arvotonta; ja jos anastan omakseni muualta saamiani lahjoja, nekin heti muuttuvat arvottomiksi.

L'esprit de verite peut resider dans la science a la condition que le mobile du savant soit l'amour de l'objet qui est la matiere de son etude... La vraie definition de la science, c'est qu'elle est l'etude de la beaute du monde

Ceux qui ont dit jusqu'ici que les applications sont le but de la science voulaient dire que la vérité ne vaut pas la peine d'être cherchée et que le succès seul importe ;

Zburzenie Troi. Opadaj?ce p?atki kwitn?cych drzew owocowych. Wiedzie?, ?e to, co najcenniejsze, nie jest zakorzenione w istnieniu. To pi?kne. Dlaczego? Przenosi dusz? poza czas.

La science, aujourd'hui, cherchera une source d'inspiration au-dessus d'elle ou périra

Si on trouve la plénitude de la joie dans la pensée que Dieu est, il faut trouver la même plénitude dans la connaissance que soi-même on n'est pas, car c'est la même pensée. Et cette connaissance n'est étendue à la sensibilité que par la souffrance et la mort.

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.

She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull

Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions

She knows all about lite'ature except maybe how to read. .

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Thus she triumphed through the class, which was a typical Blodgett contest between a dreary teacher and unwilling children of twenty, won by the teacher because his opponents had to answer his questions, while their treacherous queries he could counter by demanding, Have you looked that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups? No, what we all of us must have

I know, but the poor souls – Well, I'm sure you will agree with me in one thing: The chief task of a librarian is to get people to read." "You feel so? My feeling, Mrs. Kennicott, and I am merely quoting the librarian of a very large college, is that he first duty of the conscientious librarian is to preserve the books.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Four hundred pictures all on a wall are four hundred times less interesting than one picture; and no one knows a cafe till he has gone there often enough to know the names of the waiters. These

Actually, the great traveler is usually a small mussy person in a faded green fuzzy hat, inconspicuous in a corner of the steamer bar. He speaks only one language, and that gloomily. He knows all the facts about nineteen countries, except the home-lives, wage- scales, exports, religions, politics, agriculture, history and languages of those countries. He is as valuable as Baedeker in regard to hotels and railroads, only not so accurate.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

Y jamás se mostraba tan formidable como después de pasar días enteros en su sillón, sumido en sus improvisaciones y en sus libros antiguos.