Quotes About Knowledge

The mind that relies on cliché does not really know what it is saying.

Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.

Dannyl nodded. "But there was only one talisman, wasn't there? Sometimes all it takes is one man and a little knowledge to do great things." The king smiled crookedly. "Yes. And sometimes it only takes one man and a little knowledge to do a great deal of harm.

Teadmatus ei ole vabandus.

The most important attribute of a magician is knowledge." He paused, then looked at each of the novices who had spoken in turn. "Without it his strength is useless, he has nothing to be skilled or talented in, despite his best intentions.

You need a good memory to use the library. How else do you find a book again after you've read it?" - Tayend

Restricting knowledge slows the pace of development.

Mööda koridori tõtates püüdis Rothen Vinara kutse põhjusele mitte mõelda. Peagi saab ta selle niigi teada.

Of course, I'm not a doctor; I just watch a lot of ER and House.

To put it simply, we think books are too important to leave to writers, and we want the wisest, most experienced, most knowledgeable people on earth to be able to effectively and easily share their wisdom with the world.

This is not a small thing. You may not realize this, but the majority of the tacit knowledge that builds civilizations, the stuff that maybe isn't sexy but is foundational knowledge, has actually been lost. Why? Because no one wrote it down. They just passed it on by word of mouth.

A person who won't read books has no advantage over one who can't read books.

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference".

Torah is the study of G-d thinking.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)