Quotes About Knowledge

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

You do not have a right to an opinion. You have the right to an informed opinion. You do not have a right to be ignorant.

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Sometimes being able to read makes more questions than if you were stupid.

Or, as Goethe summed it: "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

No es cierto que se tenga derecho a dar cualquier opinión. Se tiene derecho a dar una opinión INFORMADA. Nadie tiene derecho a ser ignorante.

Who anyway can define the borderline between gnosis and poetic knowledge? The two modes are not identical, and yet they interpenetrate one another. Are we to call the gnosis of Novalis, Blake, and Shelley a knowledge that is not poetic? In domesticating the Sufis in our imagination, Corbin renders Ibn 1 Arabi and Suhrawardi as a Blakl· and a Shelley whose precursor is not Milton but the Koran.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

Without the Canon, we cease to think.

Is becoming wise an act of knowledge? For Nietzsche, the greatest thoughts were the greatest actions. Thinking in and through metaphors, Shakespeare gives us persons who act with titanic self-destructiveness, incarnate sublimity:

Poets and critics alike seek to convert opinion into knowledge, but this means opinion in the legal and not the public sense. What is it you know when you recognize a voice?

Knowledge of what? If, as Epicurus insisted, the what is unknowable, Walt's knowledge is a personal gnosis, in which the knower himself is known by whatever can be known.

cannot, with Nietzsche and with Pater, believe that life can only be appreciated as an aesthetic phenomenon. But I wish to believe that, and perhaps Judaic tradition blocks me from it. Wisdom needs to be added to aesthetic splendor and cognitive power as the three stigmata or criteria of knowledge or value. But where except in Shakespeare are all three to be discovered consistently?

To be a leader, you must be willing to be a lifelong learner.

Loneliness, anger, frustration, stress, peer-pressure, passions, the desire to please both man and God are all factors in your behavior, and the more you know about what makes you tick, the more you will be in control of your life.

Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.