Quotes About Knowledge

Há uma sensação, hoje em dia, de que temos acesso a muitos fatos, mas não necessariamente ao entendimento desses fatos . Uma das causas dessa situação é que a própria mídia é projetada para tornar o pensamento algo desnecessário - embora, é claro, isso seja apenas mera impressão.

Se o livro lhe é perfeitamente inteligível - do começo ao fim -, então o autor e você são como mentes fabricadas a partir do mesmo molde. Os símbolos impressos seriam meras expressões do entendimento que já lhes era comum antes mesmo de vocês se conhecerem.

knowledge can be communicated and that discussion can result in learning.

Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened.

não é verdade que todo o livro possa ser lido para entretenimento também pode ser lido para entendimento.

The first thing to do when you have amassed your bibliography is to inspect all of the books on your list. You should not read any of them analytically before inspecting all of them.

If communications were not complex, structural outlining would be unnecessary. If language were a perfect medium instead of a relatively opaque one, there would be no need for interpretation. If error and ignorance did not circumscribe truth and knowledge, we should not have to be critical.

always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understand­ ing as too few. There is a sense in which we modems are inun­ dated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Maybe, like my parents and grandparents, I can trust myself to be a mom without a reference library to tell me how. Maybe I don't need magazines, television of the internet to tell me how. And maybe most of all I don't need marketing campaigns designed to make money off my good intentions to tell me how. Maybe I know how. Or, by God, I'll figure it out.

In order for genuine affection to take place, knowledge of the lovable other is needed. An image has to become fixed in the mind – a face, a voice, a picture, a garment at the very least – some kind of reminder of the person. In other words, love requires lovable features, not lofty concepts, ethereal entities, or other vagaries devoid of attributes. This kind of 'love' is primitive, undeveloped, and usually self-deluding.

La historia está llena de sabios que no se han conocido nunca a sí mismos

Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.

I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and what John Stuart Mill could do as an infant at dawn, I too can do on a Saturday afternoon in my prime.

you will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy.

Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Books don't need batteries.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.