Quotes About Knowledge

Serena is full of advice, about everything from how to cure thrush, how to survive a divorce, how to write novels. She feels that if she knows things others don't it is her duty to pass them on. Many of her sentences begin with 'Why don't you—?' 

statements line by line. If everything

when it happened, but now it appeared that she'd been even younger. The faded writing would be almost indecipherable even if it had been in English. It was going to take more than her knowledge of Yiddish to make out the text. The envelope had arrived in

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

the Qur'?n appears to be interested in three types knowledge for man. One is the knowledge of nature which has been made subservient to man, i.e., the physical sciences. The second crucial type is the knowledge of history (and geography): the Qur'?n persistently asks man to "travel on the earth" and see for himself what happened to bygone civilizations and why they rose and fell. The third is the knowledge of man himself.

Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity is the unity of knowledge, how can it be all that subjective? It is a faith grounded in knowledge.

Excelencias, imaginad por un momento qué sucedería si las bibliotecas pudiesen estar en casa de cualquier hijo de vecina.

Quisiera decirles, muchachos, que cada cual cuenta sólo aquello que conoce.

Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro.

Nadie se da cuenta al tener un libro en las manos, el esfuerzo, el dolor, la vigilia, la sangre que ha costado. El libro es, sin disputa, la obra mayor de la humanidad. — Dime qué lees y te diré quién eres

Tenía frío y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua: pedía libros, es decir, horizontes, es decir, escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón. Porque la agonía física, biológica, natural, de un cuerpo por hambre, sed o frío, dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

Tenía frio y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua; pedía libros, es decir horizontes, es decir escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón.Porque la agonía física, biológica , natural del cuerpo por hambre sed o frío dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

Comprenderás que un poeta no puede decir nada de la Poesía. Eso déjaselo a los críticos y profesores. Pero ni tú ni yo ni ningún poeta sabemos lo que es la Poesía.

Creo que mi especialidad está en escribir lo que no sé, pues no creo que solamente se debe escribir lo que se sabe. Y desconfío de los que en estas cuestiones pretenden saber mucho, claro y seguro.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. For as long as you foster a willingness to learn, you will ward off sclerosis of the brain and hardening of the mental arteries. Curiosity has led many a man and women into the valley of serious wealth.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Grief is love's alter ego, after all, yin to its yang, the necessary other; like night, grief has its own dark beauty. How may we know light without knowledge of dark? How may we know love without sorrow? "The disorientation following such loss can be terrible, I know" Wendell Berry wrote me on learning of Larry's death. "But grief gives the full measure of love, and it is somehow reassuring to learn, even by suffering, how large, and powerful love is.

Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.