Quotes About Knowledge

Traditions are not killed by facts.

He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.

I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm afraid I go off like a bottle of warm beer.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already." ? George Orwell, 1984.

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Los mejores libros son los que nos dicen lo que ya sabemos

For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?

Les meilleurs livres sont ceux qui racontent ce que l'on sait déjà.

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.

it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones:

Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that everybody knows in Spain—which political party they belonged to. They thought they were Anarchists, but were not quite certain; perhaps they were Communists.

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.

and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

Los mejores libros, comprendió, son los que te cuentan lo que ya sabías.

They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood how; he did not understand why.

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