Quotes About Knowledge

He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)

a large minority of human beings are mentally equipped to take part in the advance of physical science

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Therefore, for the sake of all of us, let's abandon our useless, endless, suicidal bickering and unite behind the real task that awaits us—to survive—to learn—to expand—to enter into a new level of knowledge. Let us strive to inherit the Universe that is waiting for us; doing so alone, if we must, or in company with others—if they are there.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

For in much wisdom is much grief,' Ecclesiastes said.

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As

He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience.

la fatuidad es privilegio de ignorantes; el sabio es humilde porque sabe cuán poco sabe

De poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

My work in the nomadic school proved what Miss Taylor had always maintained: Teaching is learning.

El problema no estaba en conseguir la respuesta, sino en formular la pregunta precisa.

viitorul nu exista, obisnuiesc sa spuna indienii de pe podisul inalt, exista doar trecutul, din care dobandim experienta si cunostinte, si prezentul, care tine cat ai clipi din ochi, pentru ca s-a si transformat in ziua de ieri.

Trato de no pensar en el mañana; el futuro no existe, dicen los indios del altiplano, sólo contamos con el pasado para extraer experiencia y conocimiento, y el presente, que apenas es un chispazo, puesto que en el mismo instante se convierte en ayer.

With age, you acquire a certain humility, Alexander. The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. At your age, you can afford to commit the sin of arrogance, and it doesn't matter much if you look ridiculous," his grandmother lectured.

Si un indio del Amazonas puede detener un chorro de sangre con saliva, cuánto más podrá hacer la ciencia por ti, hija.

Decía que de poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

Trato de no pensar en el mañana; el futuro no existe, dicen los indios del altiplano, sólo contamos con el pasado para extraer experiencia y conocimiento, y el presente, que es apenas un chispazo, puesto que en el mismo instante se convierte en ayer.