Quotes About Knowledge

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

My assumption, which goes against the orthodox view of knowledge, is that there is no direct correlation between objects and knowledge and that understanding is constantly recreated. This work is thus part of a growing body of literature in the social sciences and humanities that questions the possibility of a singular truth.

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to reign as absolute lord.

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

Tarihte bir baÅŸar?n?n ahlaki deÄŸeri asla pratik faydas?yla ölçülmez, insanl??a kal?c? bir zenginlik katanlar, insanl???n bilgisini çoÄŸalt?p yarat?c? gücünü artt?ranlard?r. syf-230

zay?f noktalar?n? bilmeyenlerin kendilerini bilenlerden daha iyi hissettiklerine inan?yorum! Zay?f noktalar?n? asla öÄŸrenmemeleri daha iyidir.

Meine Bücherei ist mein Königreich, und hier versuche ich als absoluter Herrscher zu regieren.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

Immer sind die Instinkte wissender als unsere wachen Gedanken.

Klug sein hat noch nie einen Menschen an Dummheiten gehindert.

Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life's journey.

Ils avaient fui les perils de la conversation pour le terrain plus rassurant des livres.

Neyin gerçek, neyin yanl?? olduÄŸunu öyle uzaktan, insanlar?n sana anlatt?klar?na bakarak nas?l bilebilirsin ki?

For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.

Obedeciendo a una ley irrevocable, la historia niega a los contemporáneos la posibilidad de conocer en sus inicios los grandes movimientos que determinan su época

Das Studium ist nicht einmal Nebensache, es ist Formalität:

Él lo sabe todo y lo consigue todo. Él te trae el libro más singular del más olvidado de los anticuarios alemanes. Es el hombre más capaz en toda Viena y además auténtico, un ejemplar de una raza en extinción, un saurio antediluviano de los libros.

To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.

seine Unbildung war auf allen Gebieten gleich universell«.

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.