Quotes About Knowledge

The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What

Si los chicos no aprenden esto, que la cultura no es acumulación de saber sino discriminación, no hay educación sino desorden mental.

La política, amenazada por el terrorismo, ha dado vida a los miembros de una casta condenada a no saber nada del país que debe gobernar. Casta sí, pero en el sentido de los parias indios, despojados del contacto con los demás seres humanos.

Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year, around 3,600 in ten years, and between the ages of ten and eighty we'll have read only 25,200. A trifle.

A thesis studies an object by making use of specific instruments. Often the object is a book and the instruments are other books.

What terrifies you most in purity, I asked? Haste, William answered. -- The Name of the Rose, Fifth Day, Nones

Los perdedores y los autodidactas siempre saben mucho más que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una sola cosa y no perder el tiempo en sabérselas todas, el placer de la erudición está reservado para los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.

Whoever reflects on four things, it were better he had never been born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, and that which is after. —Talmud, Hagigah 2.1

I know the present only through the television screen, whereas I have direct knowledge of the Middle Ages.

You should read some Feuerbach

Günümüzde bilginler, çoÄŸu kez cücelerin omuzlar?na ç?km?? cücelerden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must do or can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.

History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

There are secrets that kill. But

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth...!

Han sido legiones los que se han preguntado si Cristo rió. El asunto no me interesa demasiado. Creo que nunca rió porque, como hijo de Dios, era omnisciente y sabía lo que haríamos los cristianos.

Porque 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.

Which?" I asked. "Aha, our novice wants to know too much. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words, lying with herbs.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.

Tudo, até o irrelevante, pode ser útil um dia.

At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitter stem. In reading Albert, couldn't I learn what Thomas might have said? Or in reading Thomas, know what Averroës said?