Quotes About Knowledge

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly educated people are unschooled.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students, not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Entonces, las geiko iniciaban su trabajo y recopilaban información acerca de las personas a quienes tendrían que entretener. Si uno de los clientes era un político, la geiko en cuestión estudiaba la legislatura que aquél defendía; si se trataba de una actriz, leía algún artículo sobre ella en una revista; si era un cantante, escuchaba sus discos. O leía su novela. O estudiaba el país de donde procedía

Colocar el abanico entre una y la maestra es un acto ritual, y significa que la alumna está dispuesta a dejar atrás el mundo cotidiano y a entrar en el ámbito de los conocimientos de la profesora. Al hacer una reverencia, declaramos que estamos preparadas para recibir lo que la maestra está a punto de inculcarnos.

That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.

Nu înveti bine si cu placere decît ceea ce cunosti deja.

Cea dintâi È™i singura esenÈ›ial? datorie a omului este caritatea, adic? o neobosit? justificare a bucuriei existenÈ›ei. A face din viaÈ›a È™i cunoaÈ™terea ta o permanent? bucurie – în pofida tuturor mizeriilor, È™i întunecimilor, È™i p?catelor, È™i neputinÈ›elor, È™i dezn?dejdilor – iat? o datorie cu adev?rat viril?, o datorie a omului È™i a datoriei din tine.

Numai cineva care este cu adev?rat ocupat È™i responsabil în munca lui poate experimenta acea beatitudine È™i acel instrument de cunoaÈ™tere, pierderea timpului

Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reason. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality – the deepest aspects – which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfil a function, that of bringing to light the hidden modalities of being.

One becomes oneself when one learns one's history.

el iniciado, el que ha conocido los misterios, es el que sabe.

Alchemy was not an embryonic chemistry; it was a discipline bound up with a different system of significances and pursuing a different end.

Books are what save us. Books are what don't save us.

Em recorda el que va dir Montaigne: «No hi ha res que es cregui amb tanta fermesa com el que es coneix menys».

Els coneixements tenen fluïdesa, canvien, els fets canvien, es converteixen en no fets.

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book

When we know something we stop thinking about it, don't we?

They were apoplectically suspicious of higher learning—especially for girls. Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book.

But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.

Ve? osamnaest milijuna godina hodamo na stražnjim nogama a još smo ?etveronošci uglavnom svi I što to zna?i znati ?itati i pisati kada pišemo ve? sigurno dulje od pedeset hiljada godina a svakih se stotinu godina rodi po jedan ?ovjek koji umije doista pisati a njega ne ?ita nitko

Ja vjerujem u ?isto?u umjetni?ke spoznaje, kao u još jedinu ?isto?u koja nam je preostala u ovom životinjstvu oko nas!

To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.