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Quotes About Knowledge

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.
~ Umberto Eco
Chi legge avrà vissuto 5000 anni. Perché la letteratura è un'immortalità all'indietro
~ Umberto Eco
And by this passion I was naturally seduced, and I understood why the angelic doctor said that amor est magis cognitivus quam cognitio, that we know things better through love than through knowledge.
~ Umberto Eco
Only the librarian has received the secret, from the librarian who preceded him, and he communicates it, while still alive, to the assistant librarian, so that death will not take him by surprise and rob the community of that knowledge.
~ Umberto Eco
recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book.
~ Umberto Eco
But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.
~ Umberto Eco
La ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.
~ Umberto Eco
sá»± h?c h?i không ch? bao g?m hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y ph?i hay có th? làm, mà còn bao g?m c? sá»± hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y s? có kh? n?ng làm nhưng có l? không nên.
~ Umberto Eco
weil er die Abtei führt, als wäre sie eine Zitadelle zur Verteidigung der Bibliothek.
~ Umberto Eco
El sabio debe velar de alguna manera los secretos que descubre, para evitar que otros hagan mal uso de ellos.
~ Umberto Eco
Wo er einen Kopf haben sollte, hat er einen alten Bücherschrank. Einen wurmstichigen.
~ Umberto Eco
Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! —Somos enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.
~ Umberto Eco
Gençler art?k hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek istemiyorlar, bilim geriliyor, tüm dünya tepetaklak olmuÅŸ, körler körleri yönetiyor ve onlar? uçuruma sürüklüyorlar, kuÅŸlar, daha uçmay? öÄŸrenmeden yuvadan ayr?l?yor, eÅŸekler çal?yor, öküzler oynuyor.
~ Umberto Eco
Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre têm conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer deverá saber uma única coisa e não perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudição é reservado aos perdedores. Quanto mais coisas uma pessoa sabe, menos coisas deram certo para ela.
~ Umberto Eco
And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.
~ Umberto Eco
tüm dilleri konuÅŸtuÄŸunu, ama hiçbirini bilmediÄŸini anlad?m.
~ Umberto Eco
Where have i=I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it all could have been different? You are wise. But the greatest wisdom, at that moment, is knowing that your wisdom is too late. You understand everything when there is no longer anything to understand.
~ Umberto Eco
ÇoÄŸu kez, bilimadam?, büyülü olmayan kitaplar? sayg?s?z gözlerden korumak için büyülü göstermelidir.
~ Umberto Eco
Kitapl?k hem gerçeÄŸin hem de yan?lg?n?n kan?t?d?r.
~ Umberto Eco
Where have I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it all could have been different? You are wise. But the greatest wisdom, at that moment, is knowing that your wisdom is too late. You understand everything when there is no longer anything to understand.
~ Umberto Eco
Así es como conoce Dios el mundo, porque lo ha concebido en su mente, o sea, en cierto sentido, desde fuera, antes de crearlo, mientras que nosotros no logramos conocer su regla, porque vivimos dentro de él y lo hemos encontrado ya hecho.
~ Umberto Eco
This was my master's way. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature, but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture, and how they thought through them. A gift that, as we shall see, was to prove useful to him in the days to follow.
~ Umberto Eco
el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.
~ Umberto Eco
Todos hemos experimentado un saludable temor ante ogros y hombres lobo, pero de mayores hemos aprendido a no tenerles miedo a las manzanas envenenadas sino al agujero de ozono, y de pequeñines todos hemos creído que los niños los traía la cigüeña, pero esto no nos ha impedido de mayores adoptar un sistema más adecuado (y agradable) para producirlos.
~ Umberto Eco