Quotes About Knowledge

the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)

Los títulos que forman nuestra primera biblioteca de adultos son la piedra basal de aquello en que deseamos convertirnos.

A book was like a drawer: one opened it and notions flew out.

And when I think of my few acquisitions, I have to admit how fiercely the autodidact struggles for her education, and how incomplete that education remains. How illusory is any accumulation of knowledge!

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

A man doesn't think of change when he is ignorant of any alternative.

Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

The Inquisitor stared at him. "Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?" Right here in this room. He was on guard, very, very much on guard. Yet he still felt his lips part and form the shape necessary to pronounce the first syllable of the truth. "I thought we had already established that I have neither interest in nor knowledge of your elemental mage." "Why are you protecting her, Your Highness?" Because she is mine. You will have her over my dead body.

The Holy Bible. Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, otherwise known as the First Folio.

He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.

Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

The more knowledge we have about the realities of lethal illness, the more sensible we can be about choosing the time to stop or the time to fight on, and the less we expect the kind of death most of us will not have. For those who die and those who love them, a realistic expectation is the surest path to tranquillity.

knowledge without wisdom is a clear and present danger

No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.

The ultimate aim of the scientist is not only knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge with the aim of overcoming that in our environment which he views as hostile. None of the acts of nature (or Nature) is more hostile than death.

bioengineers but by those who know who we are.

Günümüzde, kasabas?ndaki bir dükkân?n sobas?n?n yan?nda dikilen bir çiftçinin zihni baÅŸkalar?n?n söylemleriyle dolup ta??yor. Onun zihnini böylesi dolduranlar ise gazeteler ve dergiler. Ä°çinde bir tür güzel, çocuksu masumiyetin de bar?nd??? eski kara cehaletin büyük bir k?sm? sonsuza kadar yok oldu.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

If you are white, you have an obligation to at least understand where the concept of whiteness comes from and to decide how you will proceed with that knowledge. I hope your journey will include an intentional choice to acquire dexterity.

Knowing the same tricks a con man knows is the best way to protect yourself from him. -Naru