Quotes About Knowledge

Estoy de acuerdo en que mucho de lo que me rodea es absurdo, pero probablemente damos ese nombre a lo que no comprendemos todavía.

Probablemente la única áncora de salvación sea la ciencia, el uranio 235, esas cosas. Pero además hay que vivir.

Se creen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se lo han comido. Me da risa, porque en realidad son buenos muchachos y viven convencidos de que lo que estudian y lo que hacen son cosas muy difíciles y profundas. En el circo es igual, y entre nosotros es igual. La gente se figura que algunas cosas son el colmo de la dificultad, y por eso aplauden a los trapecistas.

a lo sumo la melancolía de una vida demasiado corta para tantas bibliotecas [...]

Conocíamos cada vez mejor la zona de los terrenos baldíos que hay mas allá del Boulevard Jourdan, donde a veces se reunían los del Club de la Serpiente para hablar con un vidente ciego, paradoja estimulante.

tengo suficiente inteligencia como para empezar a destruirla ventajosamente.

Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The revulsion towards and violent detachment from nature leads to its desecration, to the destruction of the organic conception of the world as a cosmos, as an order of forms reflecting a higher meaning, as the 'visible manifestation of the invisible' - a conception (of Indo-European origin) which is an integral part of the Classical view of the world and which also lies at the basis of various forms of knowledge of a different sort compared to profane, modern science.

Gustav Meyrink. The latter is the author of novels which reflect esoteric knowledge in an exceptionally pure fashion (for this reason, I was later to translate three of Meyrink's novels: Walpurgis Night , The White Dominican and The Angel of the West Window - which I published for Bocca under a pseudonym)

the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.

I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

Read more than you write, live more than you read

Tenía un interés tal en la educación que cualquier conocimiento nuevo, por arcano o trivial que fuera, lo llevaba a la luna.

You didn't know we were occupyed twice in the 20th century? Don't worry, when you have kids they won't know that the US occupied Irak either.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

In 1945, scientific knowledge leaped way ahead of our maturity as a species. We are still lagging way behind.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.