Quotes About Knowledge

O que distingue o autodidata daquele que estudou não é a extensão dos conhecimentos, mas os diferentes graus de vitalidade e de confiança em si.

As as result of your not knowing, this country has lost its freedom, lost it for centuries, perhaps, and you shout that you feel no guilt? How can you stant the sight of what you've done? How is it you aren't horrified? Have you no eyes to see? If you had eyes, you would have to put them out and wander away from Thebes!

whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

Se estudamos, discutimos, analisamos uma realidade, analisamo-la tal como aparece no nosso espírito, na nossa memória. Só conhecemos a realidade no tempo passado. Não a conhecemos tal como é no momento presente, no momento em que ela se passa, em que ela é. Ora o momento presente não se assemelha à sua recordação. A recordação não é a negação do esquecimento. A recordação é uma forma de esquecimento.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían?, sino: ¿es inocente el hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

Na pierwszym planie by?o zrozumia?e k?amstwo, a w tle niezrozumia?a prawda.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Not all 'schooling' is 'education,' and not all 'education' is 'schooling'.

All learning is ultimately self-learning.

Asking economists for investment advice is like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field, though sort of related.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Hate is love without enough data.

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.