Quotes About Knowledge

Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.

Mas o que é uma donzela, tola e ignorante em seu desejo, se comparada a uma viúva, cujo anseio é feito de conhecimento e de ausência, de contenção e de penúria, de fome e de jejum, é lúcido e insolente?

João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.

Yes, those ten-billion-dollar twenty-seven-kilometer-long machines are good for more than just finding bosons named after Peter Higgs.

if there were once more stars visible to us than there are today, what once-obvious facts are we missing because humans arrived nearly fourteen billion years after the party started?

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

Theorists are a smart bunch (in theory),

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. —EDMUND BURKE

Una muchacha decente tiene que ver inmoralidades en el cine, porque hay cosas que es indispensable saber

La vampirología es un conocimiento extenso. Admirable si se tiene en cuenta que es el estudio de algo que no existe. Además de ser extenso, está muy extendido: la gente común y corriente sabe más de los vampiros que de los otomíes, por ejemplo.

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

I have known that thing the Greeks knew not uncertainty.

Let others brag about the pages they have written; I'm proud of those I've read.

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.

On some shelf in some hexagon, it was argued, there must exist a book that is the cipher and perfect compendium of all other books, and some librarian must have examined that book; this librarian is analogous to a god.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.

No hay calidad sin entrenamiento. Un escritor solo puede innovar si tiene hábitos lingüísticos poderosos y fértiles. Inventemos desde lo que sabemos. José Antonio Marina

Diríase que una sola persona ha redactado cuantos libros hay en el mundo; tal unidad central hay en ellos que es innegable que son obra de un solo caballero omnisciente" (Emerson: Essays). Veinte años antes, Shelley dictaminó que todos los poemas