Quotes About Knowledge

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

Antes de intentar una cura debemos averiguar en qué consiste la enfermedad.

When one begins by expressing lack of competence in a given field, it usually implies that a flat opinion in that field will follow almost immediately

Fakat art?k dünyan?n ne olduÄŸunu biliyordu: ÖzgürlüÄŸün s?n?rs?zl???yla kuÅŸat?lm?? bir hapishane..

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.

Por desgracia, un público no informado tiende a confundir la erudición con la magia, y la vida amorosa parece ser el factor que requiere mayor cantidad de argucias.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

ÖÄŸrenmek demek ufkunuzu geniÅŸletmek, daha fazla ÅŸey yaÅŸamak ve kendinize farkl? yaÅŸam alanlar? yaratmak demektir. ... Bilgi yaln?zca güç deÄŸildir; bilgi mutluluktur ve bilginin size öÄŸretilmesi ise entelektüel manada, sevilmekle eÅŸdeÄŸerdir.

Para un profesor, lo lógico es que el escondrijo elegido sea una Universidad

Perché tante persone passavano la loro vita senza cercare la risposta a tutte le domande che c'erano... anzi, senza nemmeno porsi le domande? si chiese Seldon. Nella vita, esisteva qualcosa di più eccitante della ricerca delle risposte?

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Proti hlouposti ani sami bohové nic nezmohou.

To have good ideas, we need to consume good ideas too. Follow your curiosity.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

And finally, people are against it." "But why?" "Because they're against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor.

We are gaining the knowledge; science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

You are now too old to be made a scholar after my fashion, but you are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

commonly known as simply "The Foundation

Si todos los seres humanos comprendieran la Historia, podrían dejar de cometer los mismos estúpidos errores una y otra vez.

it may be worth listening to all that scraping, tootling, and banging, for whatever information it might conceivably yield concerning Earth.