Quotes About Knowledge

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro —replicó Julián.

1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max. 'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?' 'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something.

Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

Certainty is reassuring, but one can only learn by doubting.

You seem very sure of yourself, Daniel.' I, who was never even sure what the time was, nodded with the conviction of the ignorant.

There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Boeken zijn spiegels: je ziet slechts dat wat je zelf al in je draagt.

La felicidad, o lo más cercano a ella a que puede aspirar cualquier criatura pensante, la paz de espíritu, es aquello que se evapora por el camino que lleva del creer al saber.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.

The more you hide the truth, the quicker it finds you - Max, The Prince of Midst

You're only free up to the point where you ignore the truth.

Nothing is more surprising or frightening than what one already knows.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner.

Wise men think and speak alike.

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

Un livre est un miroir ou nous trouvons seulement ce que nous portons déjà en nous

Hablar es de necios; callar es de cobardes; escuchar es de sabios.

In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner.

porque nadie pregunta por aquello que prefiere ignorar.

El vino convierte al sabio en necio, y al necio en sabio.

Everything we need to know is written in the great book of nature," Corelli agreed. "We only need the courage and the mental and spiritual clarity with which to read it.