Quotes About Knowledge

And so, wisely no doubt, I left philosophy to my brother, and returned to literature, which did, and still does, tell us best what the world consists of. It can also tell us how best to live in that world, thought it does so most effectively when appearing not to do so.

How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted?

Istorija yra žinomyb?, atsirandanti atminties netobulum? ir dokument? netikslum? susikirtimo taške.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.' 

Apropo, cum preferati, autodistrugerea prin lipsa cunoasterii sau prin acumularea cunoasterii de sine?

The more you learn, the less you fear. 'Learn' not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

We believe too little, and aesthetically know too much; so we re-create, we find new categories of pleasure in the work.

The more you learn, the less you fear.

And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too.

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically selfevident." He left one of those slight pauses in which we again wondered if he was engaged in subtle mockery or a high seriousness beyond the rest of us.

The one thing she'd been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one's own prejudices.

Do the girls emerge quite ruined for marriage after you stuff them full of knowledge? I should imagine most of our girls emerge less tolerant of fools, if that's what you mean. - Dryden and Phoebe

He was older, bolder. He knew of whores and wars, violence and vendettas. He knew precisely what he wanted, always. He wanted her.

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.

There is learning in everything

History is precious; ritual is precious. Lose that and we lose the knowledge of our own being, Lose the thread of ancestry, lose the tales, and we are adrift without identity.

To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean "to think", but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one's consciousness into it.

By tradition, a teacher was a most revered figure, a mentor for life, who imparted wisdom as well as knowledge, and who must be respected like a parent. (The murder of a teacher was classified as parricide, which, like treason, was punishable by death of a thousand cuts.) Emperors and princes set up shrines in their homes to honour their deceased tutors.

Sem educação, o mundo dos camponeses era dolorosamente estreito. Suas conversas em geral se concentravam em detalhes miúdos do dia-a-dia.

In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.