Quotes About Knowledge

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

It's true. All the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

I know what guano is," Janelle said in a warning tone. "But I don't want to hear about poop. I want crispy leaf fun.

When you want someone to tell you something—don't ask, tell it wrong.

Money should never stand in the way of learning.

In his school photo, Edward had a rakish grin, like he knew something the others did not. A bit like David.

C'est un grand acte de sagesse à la fois et de pitié de la part du créateur, que de nous avoir interdit la connaissance de l'avenir, alors qu'il nous à octroyé les délices du souvenir et les prestiges de l'espérance.

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)

Posso sapere (o ignorare) tutto quello che voglio, il mondo resta quello che è.

Se viceversa un filosofo dice che la cosiddetta 'verità' è una questione di potere" perché fa il filosofo invece che il mago?