Quotes About Knowledge

Magic is just a term people use for things they're too primitive to understand properly.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries - as if the words are synonymous with boredom or timidity. But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them?

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

La sección más importante de mi casa es la biblioteca, donde guardo verdaderos tesoros.

Confucius said: "A man who is really wise knows what he knows and also knows what he does not know.

History is experience. If you do not know the past, you will be lost in the future.

This is true even for something as mundane as insurance sales. A recent study examined knowledge about multiline insurance (life, home, auto, and commercial) in 150 agents. Not surprisingly, the highly successful agents—as determined by their sales volumes—knew more about the various insurance products than the less successful agents.

Each new grammar pattern we find sheds light on how the human brain creates language. The loss of even one language may forever close the door to a full understanding of human cognitive capacity.

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

So it is also that in the act of knowing, to the extent that we know something truly, we know it as created, that is, as having its origin and its sustaining existence in God. 7 To claim to know something while thinking it to be independent of God (or to deny that there is a God) is to fail to know it for what it really is. Whatever it is, it is created and sustained by God at every moment.

The truth is, almost every solid idea that comes from science is in some sense an abstraction rather than a 'real' thing.

Science aims at a closer relation between word and fact.

To be sure, physicists have faith in string theory because, in some important sense, at least, it seems to work - just as people fly in airplanes because they work. The difference is, somebody understands how jets work. And no one, as yet, understands what underlies string theory.

Measurement, it's probably fair to say, is the cornerstone of knowledge.

Libraries are the granary of the spirit, without which we could not survive the siege.

You can lead the people to water, but you can't make them think. Nobody, it seems, can do that.

When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.