Quotes About Knowledge

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

Burjuva toplumunda, her insan?n meta al?c?s? olarak meta hakk?nda ansiklopedik bilgi sahibi oldu?u fictio juris'i (varsay?m?) egemendir.

Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open its mouth for the roast pigeons of absolute knowledge to fly into it.

Hay necesidad de una gran perspicacia para comprender que los conocimientos, las nociones y las concepciones, en una palabra, la conciencia del hombre, cambia con toda modificación sobrevenida en las relaciones sociales, en la existencia colectiva? ¿Qué demuestra la historia del pensamiento sino que la producción intelectual se transforma con la producción material?

Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es.

capital collapses because it cannot exist alongside shared knowledge

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

Gr?matas ir spogu?i: taj?s var redz?t tikai to, kas jau ir tev? paš?.

I like being in control, was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning, but she didn't What's so wrong with that?

a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.' Sophocles.

Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events.

There were so many facts that Amelia no longer felt certain about (or perhaps she had never known them). She would soon be nearer fifty than forty, and she was sure that every day she could feel more neural pathways disappearing—fusing and arcing and dying—leaving her unable to retrieve information.

Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.