Quotes About Knowledge

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are

Dime lo que lees y te diré quien eres; eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees".

Ignorance est mère de tous les maux.

Anyone can be a film critic. The apprentice supposedly need not possess a tenth of the knowledge that would be demanded of a critic of literature, music or painting. A director must live with the fact that his work will be called to judgment by someone who has never seen a film of Murnau's.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

a aquello que se ha aprendido, a la par que se sigue aprendiendo—

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

que dit le professeur, ils comprennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont écouté, ils retiennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont compris, et ils se servent de la moitié de ce qu'ils ont retenu, c'est-à-dire pas grand-chose, à la fin.

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Ah God! Had I but studiedIn the days of my foolish youth.

I know all except myself.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.

C'era una vera e propria fame in lei, e alle ragazze non si cnfaceva essere fameliche. Le ragazze dovevano sbocconcellare con parsimonia a tavola. e le loro menti dovevano accontentarsi di una dieta morigerata. Ma tutto questo a lei non bastava. Tutta la conoscenza - ogni genere di conoscenza - attirava Faith, e c'era un piacere delizioso, pernicioso, nel carpirla senza essere scoperta.

I don't care about my face! I'm tired of being stupid, and everybody keeping me stupid just for the sake of my face. Even if it means I have to run off and live in the wild caves with a bag over my head, I still want to know what's going on. I need to know.

Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.

Somehow, without noticing, Mosca had become old enough to hear about such things.

There may be questions still unanswered, but that means that we need science, not that science is useless [...] There are fish in the sea as yet uncaught, but that does not mean that fishing nets have failed and should be thrown aside.

There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too. A few stale lessons from tired governesses, dull walks, unthinking pastimes. But it was not enough. All knowledge – any knowledge – called to Faith, and there was a delicious, poisonous pleasure in stealing it unseen.