Quotes About Knowledge

How do you know that? You couldn't have finished the book." "I skipped to the end." "You…" He closed his eyes as he drank more wine. "Some things are unforgivable

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That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.

You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.

Y qué es la verdad sino la manera en que son las cosas?

But then, what are books for if not to change our lives?

The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. That is how it looks from Melbourne, Victoria; and she would not be surprised if the same were the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

There is not enough time in a single life to know all of Voëlfontein, know its every stone and bush. No time can be enough when one loves a place with such devouring love.

No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.

Il mondo continua farci delle sorprese. E noi continuiamo a imparare.

Mirad, leed este libro y todas vuestras preguntas encontrarán respuesta». O «Mirad, he aquí una vida nueva para vosotros».

Lo saben todo, hasta los más pequeños detalles, y sin embargo se resignan.

A ironia não lhe escapa: aquele que vai ensinar acaba aprendendo a melhor lição, enquanto os que vão aprender não aprendem nada.

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

The right approach to life is one that hungers to know as many truths as one can and to avoid as many falsehoods as possible.

immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow

Perfect! Wrath bellowed. And this is a doctor saying it -- I mean, she went to medical school. ... And Dr. Sam told me she's delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career -- See! Wrath yelled. She knows these things. My son is perfect!

But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already?

At this moment in time," came the hiss in his ear, "we know two things. But only one of them is a game changer.

Rhage shot a hard stare across the peanut gallery. "Baskin-Robbins has over thirteen hundred entries in their flavor profile, you provincial fuck-tart. And I'm talking all ice creams from all makers. I'm going to call it Wiki-licks.

All right," Vishous muttered. "I'll be back when I know something." "Please don't send that angel." "Nah. That would make your punishment cruel and unusual.