Quotes About Knowledge

There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it

Al wat ik verlang van een boek is dat het mij op een gedegen manier bezighoudt en vermaakt; en voor zover ik studeer ben ik er alleen maar op uit de kennis over mijzelf te verdiepen en te leren hoe ik op de juiste wijze moet leven en sterven.

Bize yaÅŸamay? hayat geçtikten sonra öÄŸretiyorlar.

A falta de educação, a ignorância, a simplicidade de espírito, a franqueza aliam-se em geral à ingenuidade. A curiosidade, a sutileza, o saber acarretam a malícia. A humildade, o temor, a obediência, a bondade elevada até a fraqueza e que constitui o alicerce sobre o qual assenta a conservação da sociedade humana, são peculiares a uma alma vazia, dócil, e presumindo pouco de si.

L'homme d'entendement n'a rien a perdre

En az bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyler tanr?laÅŸmaya en elveriÅŸli olanlard?r. Onun içindir ki Yunanl?lar?n, biz insanlar? tanr?laÅŸt?rmalar?na bir türlü ak?l erdiremem.

Bizim en büyük bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyleri, doÄŸan?n o konudaki son s?n?rlar? sayar?z.

He who had never actually seen a river, the first time he did so took it for the ocean, since we think that the biggest things that we know represent the limits of what Nature can produce in that species.

Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance.

Michel de Montaigne

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of goodness.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.

Dit hier zijn mijn gedachten, en daarmee probeer ik geen kennis over de dingen maar over mijzelf te verschaffen. Misschien zal ik nog eens kennis over de dingen krijgen, of heb ik die vroeger gehad, toen ik bij toeval op passages stuitte waar ze werden opgehelderd. Maar dat herinner ik mij niet meer. Want ook al lees ik nogal wat, er zit geen bodem in dit vat.

Da más quehacer interpretar las interpretaciones que dilucidar las cosas; y más libros se compusieron sobre los libros que sobre ningún otro asunto: no hacemos más que entreglosarnos unos a otros. El mundo hormiguea en comentadores; de autores hay gran carestía. El

Et si je suis un homme ayant quelque lecture, je suis un homme qui n'en retient rien.

Nichts wird so fest geglaubt wie das, was wir am wenigsten wissen.

Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

So much for yesterday. Today, Sophie's formal education must begin. Dressing the lamb before the kill, as Mrs Castaway once put it, when Sugar dared to ask what, exactly, education is.

La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.

Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone's ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn't it? Sniff out the truth!

El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.

There was only so much calamitous change you could hear about, events that rewrote what you thought was general knowledge, before your brain stopped digesting and you clung on to older realities.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.