Quotes About Knowledge

Io non desidero di saper di più di quello che so. So già fin troppo. Più si sa e più s'è infelici.

The more information one has about one's dangers the better.

His mind contained several millions of facts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass.

Don't you know ? How should I, my dear—in the absence of everything?

We must see the old king; we must "do" the cathedral,' he said; 'we must know all about it. If we could but take,' he exhaled, 'the full opportunity!' And then while, for all they seemed to give him, he sounded again her eyes: 'I feel the day like a great gold cup that we must somehow drain together.

I just say this: that I think it's a great gain, early in life, to know the worst; then we don't live in a fool's paradise.

What it accordingly amounted to for him was that he had to take full in the face a fresh attribution of ignorance. He had grown used by this time to reminders, especially from his own lips, of what he didn't know; but he had borne them because in the first place they were private and because in the second they practically conveyed a tribute.

As she was condemned to know more and more, how could it logically stop before she should know Most?

In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.

Well, intensity with ignorance—what do you want worse?

She knew even intimate things about him that he hadn't yet told her and perhaps never would. He wasn't unaware that he had told her rather remarkably many for the time, but these were not the real ones. Some of the real ones, however, precisely, were what she knew.

God himself can't change the future and still know what's going to happen.

Men can know the nature of things

She was suffering the first pang of maturity's burden, the knowledge of responsibility misused.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient.

If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.

Si tuviera la oportunidad de ser Dios, la rechazaría. Si tuviese la oportunidad de ser una estrella, la rechazaría. La oportunidad más maravillosa que ofrece la vida es la de ser humano. Abarca todo el universo. Incluye el conocimiento de la muerte, del que ni siquiera Dios goza.

Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.