Quotes About Knowledge

Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.

Pues veo que son efectivos, sobre todo, los hechos llevados a cabo por los consejos de los que tienen experiencia.

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

È impossibile conoscere a fondo anima, pensiero, intendimento di un uomo, prima che abbia dato pubblica prova di sé nell'esercizio del potere, secondo le leggi.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

You become what you understand.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it.

There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.