Quotes About Knowledge

I find television,radio very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Einstein said the only source of knowledge is experience.

She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.

Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven

But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

Non si finisce mai d'imparare, Watson. È tutta una serie di lezioni, di cui l'ultima è la più importante.

el castigo sólo produce placer a quien lo administra si la víctima tiene tiempo de conocer sus principales detalles y la personalidad de su ejecutor.

pero más vale aprender tarde que no aprender nunca.

I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures.

Wir sind gewohnt das die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen.

It would cease to be a danger if we could define it

You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección. Un necio echa mano de cuanto encuentra a su paso, de modo que el conocimiento que pudiera serle útil, o no encuentra cabida o, en el mejor de los casos, se halla tan revuelto con las demás cosas que resulta difícil dar con él.

All knowledge comes useful to the detective," remarked Holmes.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

He visto demasiado como para no saber que la intuición de una mujer puede resultar más útil que las conclusiones de un razonador analítico.

The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things. As

uno debe amueblar el pequeño ático de su cerebro con todo lo que es probable que vaya a utilizar, y que el resto puede dejarlo guardado en el desván de la biblioteca, de donde puede sacarlo si lo necesita.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing

La educación no termina nunca, Watson. Es una serie de lecciones, de las cuales las más instructivas son las últimas.

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.