Quotes About Knowledge

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The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.

George Steiner

George Steiner

They will learn by heart, perceiving the elemental pulse of love implicit in that idiom; knowing that the 'amateur' is the lover (amatore) of that which he knows and performs.

Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain, American author and humorist

A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don't know.

Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.

La poesía no es un conocimiento de sí, y menos aún la experiencia de un lejano posible (de lo que anteriormente no existía) sino la simple evocación con palabras de posibilidades inaccesibles.

No soy un hombre de ciencia en el sentido de que hablo de experiencia interior, no de objetos; pero, en el momento en que hablo de objetos, lo hago como los hombres de ciencia, con el rigor que es inevitable.

C'est en identifiant réalité et quantité que l'esprit humain s'est fait connaissance. Mais il convient de ne pas oublier que la connaissance scientifique, en invalidant des qualités qu'elle fait apparaître illusoires, ne les annule pas pour autant. La quantité c'est la qualité niée, mais non la qualité supprimée.

La santé c'est l'innocence organique. Elle doit être perdue, comme toute innocence, pour qu'une connaissance soit possible. Il en est de la physiologie comme de toute science, selon Aristote, elle procède de l'étonnement. Mais l'étonnement proprement vital c'est l'angoisse suscitée par la maladie.

Ce sont les échecs de la vie qui attirent, qui ont attiré l'attention sur la vie. Toute connaissance a sa source dans la réflexion sur un échec de la vie.

Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books