Quotes About Knowledge

hay más placer en marchar hacia la verdad que en llegar a ella".

La síntesis es la antorcha del genio.

es preferible lo malo conocido a lo bueno por conocer.

la grandeza del hombre consiste en que puede asimilar lo que le es desconocido. Asimilar, en la profundidad, es dar respuesta.

Sólo lo difícil es estimulante; sólo la resistencia que nos reta, es capaz de enarcar, suscitar y mantener nuestra potencia de conocimiento

Nur das Schwierige ist anregend, nur der Widerstand der uns herausfordert, kann unser Erkenntnisvermögen geschmeidig krümmen, es wecken und in Gang halten

Misión de la Universidad. Dije en ella que la universidad debe, ante todo, hacer del hombre medio un hombre culto. Por hombre culto entendía que tuviese unas ideas claras y básicas de la Física, Biología, Historia, Sociología y Filosofía.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

you must study the endgame before everything else.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

Ano sa makatwid ang isang Unibersidad? Isang institusyon para hindi matuto? Nagtitipon-tipon ba ang ilang tao sa ngalan ng kaalaman at pagtuturo para hadlangang matuto ang iba?

Naglalaho sa loob ng klase ang mga hadlang na itinatayo ng politika upang hatiin ang mga lahi, natutunaw wari sa alab ng kaalaman at kabataan.

My opinions were formed by books, and I know only what men have brought to light; I know nothing of the things that remain hidden, that have not been written about.

Huwag mong kalimutan na kahit pamana sa sangkatauhan ang karunungan, walang nagtatamo nito kundi ang may puso.

there are more profound truths than one finds in history

Never forget that if wisdom is the patrimony of mankind, only those of great heart will inherit it,

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile... The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a "worker" and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?