Quotes About Knowledge

that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

It's not difficult to appear bright, don't worry. The main thing is never to show obvious ignorance of anything. You prevaricate, avoid the difficulty, steer clear of the problem and then catch other people out by using a dictionary. All men are stupid oafs and ignorant nincompoops.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that's my chief defect, the real cause of my weakness. But this woman has taken possession of me in spite of myself, in spite of my fear and my knowledge of her; and she possesses me as if she had plucked out, one after the other, my every last aspiration.

There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.

He was one of those many-faced politicians without any strong beliefs, with no great resources, no backbone and no real knowledge of anything, a country lawyer with provincial good looks, craftily walking the tight-rope between any extremist parties, a kind of republican Jesuit, a sort of dubious little mushroom such as flourish in their hundreds on the popular dunghill of universal suffrage.

Ce que Flaubert avait fait pour les religions et les philosophies antiques dans la Tentation de Saint Antoine, il l'a de nouveau accompli pour tous les savoirs modernes.

Ancak mant???n genellikle aptall?k ve deliliÄŸin de deha olarak adland?r?ld??? ÅŸu dünyada kimlerin bilge, kimlerin kaç?k olduÄŸunu söyleyebilir miyiz?

Nem nehéz dolog m?velt embernek látszani, annyi az egész mesterség, hogy ne fogasd rajta magadat valami tudatlanságon. Az ember manÅ'verezik, elsikkasztja a nehézségeket, megkerüli az akadályokat, s egy lexikon segítségével lefÅ'z mindenkit. Minden ember olyan buta, mint a liba, és olyan tudatlan, mint a szamár.

Existen distintas clases de libros. Muchos hay que ni siquiera se los abre; y pocos que se copian en los muros.

the less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Karanl?k çözümü zor bir arkadaÅŸ gibidir; eÄŸer biri seni bütünüyle tan?yorsa, biri seni hiç tan?m?yor demektir.

Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

I have a hardcore attitude: a "self-published, ghost-written book" is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. When people read a book—particularly a self-published one—they have the right to expect that it's the person's writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

La gente confía en ti cuando estás informado, eres competente, piensas en grande y creas situaciones de valor seguro.

For example, how much do you think a senior vice president of Microsoft who came from McKinsey knows about starting a company?

Peg and I are in the trenches of social media, not in a war room back at headquarters. We acquired our knowledge though experimentation and diligence, not pontification, sophistry, and conference attendance.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. FRANCIS BACON, "OF STUDIES