Quotes About Knowledge

The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and know what is written.

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.

a book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.

write down what I observe in my notebooks. I do this for two reasons. The first is that Writing inculcates habits of precision and carefulness. The second is to preserve whatever knowledge I possess for you, the Sixteenth Person.

The first ten books Mr. Segundus looked at were worthless — books of sermons and moralizing from the last century, or descriptions of persons whom no one living cared about. The next fifty were very much the same. He began to think his task would soon be done. But then he stumbled upon some very interesting and unusual works of geology, philosophy and medicine. He began to feel more sanguine.

Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.

Há quem prefira atribuir sua falta de êxito a uma falha do mundo em vez de ao conhecimento mediano que tenha.

Childermass laughed. "You are right, Vinculus. You are not like the others. That is my life – there on the table. But you cannot read it. You are a strange creature – the very reverse of all the magicians of the last centuries. They were full of learning but had no talent. You have talent and no knowledge. You cannot profit by what you see.

The idea of forty precious volumes being taken into a country in a state of war where they might get burnt, blown up, drowned or dusty was almost too horrible to contemplate. Mr Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might – horror of horrors! – read them and try the spells! Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know.

Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.

There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.

Mi sono reso conto che la ricerca della Conoscenza ci ha incoraggiato a pensare alla Casa come se fosse una sorta di enigma da sciogliere, un testo da interpretare, e che se mai scoprissimo la Conoscenza, allora sarebbe come se alla Casa venisse strappato via il valore lasciando soltanto una semplice scenografia. (...) La Casa ha valore in sé perché è la Casa. È sufficiente già di per sé. Non è un mezzo per arrivare a un fine.

In May 1976 Arne-Sayles wrote a letter to the director of the museum, asking to borrow the head so that he could perform a magical rite of his own invention, transfer the seer's knowledge to himself and so usher in a New Age for Mankind. To Arne-Sayles's astonishment, the director refused.

The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man.

The knowledge we seek isn't something new. It's old. Really old. Once upon a time people possessed it and they used it to do great things, miraculous things. They should have held on to it. They should have respected it. But they didn't. They abandoned it for the sake of something they called progress. And it's up to us to get it back. We're not doing this for ourselves; we're doing it for humanity.

DEAR OTHER ALTHOUGH I CANNOT ANY LONGER REGARD THE SEARCH FOR THE GREAT AND SECRET KNOWLEDGE AS A LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOUR, I HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION IS TO CONTINUE TO HELP YOU AND GATHER ANY DATA YOU REQUIRE. IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT YOUR SCIENTIFIC WORK SHOULD SUFFER SIMPLY BECAUSE I HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE HYPOTHESIS. I HOPE THAT THIS IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU. YOUR FRIEND

As I walked, I was thinking of the Great and Secret Knowledge, which the Other says will grant us strange new powers. And I realized something. I realized that I no longer believed in it. Or perhaps that is not quite accurate. I thought it was possible that the Knowledge existed. Equally I thought that it was possible it did not. Either way it no longer mattered to me. I did not intend to waste my time looking for it any more. (pg. 60)

The old man was as passionately fond of science as we were. He knew how the World was made and was eager to pass that knowledge on to me.

Vsako srce nosi v svojem najskrivnejšem koti?ku drobtinico vednosti- spominja se kraja, trenutka v katerem je bilo sre?no, in po tistem kraju se mu toži, tja se želi vrniti.

Entender de dónde venimos, qué hubo antes de nosotros, es el primer paso para poder avanzar sin mentiras.

Perché per amare qualcosa, bisogna prima conoscerla. Può la complessità di un uomo giungere a conoscere la complessità di un altro uomo? La risposta è evidente: assolutamente no. Dunque non si può amare davvero perché non si può conoscere veramente.

Förståelse föds ur ödmjukhet, inte ur allvetandets högmod.

La comprensión nace de la humildad, no del orgullo de saber.

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. —The Monster, Frankenstein