Quotes About Knowledge

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

It's as if our bodies know the secret that we don't wish to admit yet.

The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.

We are here to know the unknown, love everyone, feel the joy of life and then we parish with infinite happiness.

If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.

Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.

I spend my days trying to remember what only my soul knows but my mind can't comprehend.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain? Had I even the secret of one such mind, did I hold the key to the fancy of even one lunatic, I might advance my own branch of science to a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson's physiology or Ferrier's brain knowledge would be as nothing.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But

How can he"—and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of—"know anything of a young ladies?

É de facto verdade que o conhecimento é mais cego do que a inocência

and the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them.

it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

knowledge is stronger than memory

Recuerde, amigo mío, que el saber es más fuerte que la memoria, y que no debemos confiar en lo más débil.

Ah, a falha da nossa ciência é querer explicar tudo, e quando não consegue, diz que não há nada que explicar

He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of latter-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.