Quotes About Knowledge

La teoría es la práctica de los impotentes

En la biblioteca fue donde cambió mi vida.

I have a condition that prompts me to want to know the truth at all times. You can't imagine the amount of distress this ailment brings to those of us who could otherwise live so content in a state of blissful ignorance.

What do I know? Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Aos poucos, assaltou-me a ideia de que atrás da capa de cada um daqueles livros se abria um infinito universo por explorar e que, fora daquelas paredes, o mundo deixava que a vida passasse em tardes de futebol e em novelas de rádio, satisfeito em ver apenas até onde vai o seu umbigo e pouco mais.

Senti-me rodeado por milhares de páginas abandonadas, de universos e almas sem dono, que se fundiam em um oceano de escuridão enquanto o mundo que palpitava do lado de fora daquelas paredes perdia a memória sem perceber, dia após dia, sentindo-se mais sábio quanto mais esquecia.

Exhibimos paciencia, señorita, y en ocasiones, asombro ante la osadía de la ignorancia. Esto es la Biblioteca Nacional.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.

There are no modest books, only arrogant ignorance.

Uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro respuestas que están en el pasado.

El silencio hace que hasta los necios parezcan sabios durante un minuto.

story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

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

To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity

When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here.

And thank goodness that's the way things are, because the day we lose the spark that makes us want to know things, and young people are content with the nonsense dressed in tinsel sold to them by the current popes of bullshittery--be it a miniature electrical appliance or battery-run chamber pot--and become incapable of understanding anything that lies beyond their backsides, we'll return to the age of the slug.

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

Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu sre?ne?

Sabe muitas coisas, senhor Corelli. - As suficientes para pensar que gostaria de o conhecer melhor e ser seu amigo. E creio que não tem muitos amigos. Eu também não. Não confio nas pessoas que estão convencidas de ter muitos amigos. É sinal de que não conhecem os outros.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro." ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

There are no dead languages, only dormant minds

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

C?rÈ›ile sînt oglinzi: vezi în ele numai ceea ce ai deja în tine..

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.