Quotes About Knowledge

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write it. "Write what you want to know" is more like it.

Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Everything we are given or learn or possess in any real sense - - the ability to play Beethoven sonata, write books, understand the principles of physics – is intended for one thing: to draw us closer to our selves.

The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged, God has kept that good wine until now. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom to not end his journey there.

in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read)

There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all. For any given reader, however dedicated he might be, such total abstention necessarily holds true for virtually everything that has been published, and thus in fact this constitutes our primary way of relating to books. We must not forget that even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom not to end his journey there.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

O pedante compreende sem sentimento profundo, enquanto o mundano usufrui sem compreender.

Si consideramos la hipótesis de que la gente no es leída, se entienden muchas cosas que no se han comprendido durante mucho tiempo pensando que ha sido leída.