Quotes About Knowledge

I always saw there was more to be learnt outside a book than in; and I took my steps accordingly, or I shouldn't have been the man I am.

Learn something about everything, And everything about something.

And intellect at Christminster is new wine in old bottles.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books

It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.

old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern

By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Tras realizar algunas averiguaciones supo que el nombre de la muchacha era Bathsheba Everdene

Per quanto contraddittorio possa sembrare, non c'è nulla di più vero che chi ha sempre fatto la scelta giusta non sa nemmeno la metà sulla natura e i modi di operare la scelta giusta, di chi ha fatto le scelte sbagliate.

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

Oh wrangling schools, that search what fire Shall burn this world had none the wit Unto this knowledge to aspire That this her fever might be it? I'm so sorry about Bella, Jack.

Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him. So he spoke carefully, and only of things he knew.

Two things to begin with. First, we go on the premise that Dr. Lecter really knows something concrete. second, we remember that Lecter looks only for the fun. Never forget fun.

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. —ECCLESIASTES

He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical check-ups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish.

He's all right. Just don't mention proton decay." "I'll try to talk around it.

When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice. -- Hannibal Lecter

The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.