Quotes About Knowledge

Hay muchos que nacen mentalmente analfabetos y tienen un lugar en el mundo. Son como cuervos, cuyas lenguas sólo son capaces de escupir, que aprenden palabras sin saber su significado.

Todo hastía, excepto el saber. Todo se vuelve rancio y fatigoso si es cosa del cuerpo, pero lo que es de la mente y el espíritu nunca cesa de satisfacer, nunca deja saciado y exhausto.

Sócrates dijo que para que un hombre sea de valor para el mundo, ha de tener educación.

La sabiduría se basa en el conocimiento, pero el conocimiento no es siempre sabiduría.

La superstición nace de la incultura. Sin embargo, muchísimas cosas serán siempre un misterio para el hombre.

El conocer a Dios produce un gozo inefable, pero también causa dolor. Cuando contemplo la belleza del mundo que Él ha creado, me siento embargado de tristeza porque a mí, hombre mortal, me es imposible retener ese momento de exaltación y pleno conocimiento.

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Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...

Don't invest in things you don't understand.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

She wants to tell them that Blue Gamma was more right than it knew: experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts; if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

I would be honored to relate everything I know of the future, if Your Majesty sees fit to ask, but for myself, the most precious knowledge I possess is this: Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

After I've translated all that I know into this language, the patterns I seek should become evident.