Quotes About Knowledge

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

I heartily recommend Alan Watts' little book Instant Weather Forecasting, which taught me how to predict weather changes in minutes.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Kannibalism on patt, kui sööja teab, mida sööb.

Optimists are just bad-informed people

On ne peut pas expliquer le goût salé à quelqu'un qui ne connaît que le sucré. Il faut le vivre pour le savoir.

Le secret de la liberté, c'est la librairie.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal. Bertold Brecht

An aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom , but to set a limit on infinite error. Life of Galileo Quoted in The Perfectionists

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

I'm teaching all the time. When am I to learn?

All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us.

Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.

Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiß und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.