Quotes About Knowledge

taking a delicious pleasure in the knowledge that she'd never be stupid enough to spend £700 on a handbag or a pen.

Which translated, Stacey thought cynically, to 'If you're going to break the law – what I don't know can't hurt me.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Mi perdoni tanta veemenza, Dmitrij Petrovi?» disse Å trum. «Ma lei mi insegna che i fisici la amano non solo perché è un'autorità, ma perché la sua autorità non l'ha mai usata per sopraffare qualcuno, perché la gioia di lavorare insieme a lei non viene dal dogmatismo, ma dalla possibilità di discutere vivacemente, persino con foga.

What Mostovskoy found most sinister of all was that National Socialism seemed so at home in the camp: rather than peering haughtily at the common people through a monocle, it talked and joked in their own language. It was down-to-earth and plebeian. And it had an excellent knowledge of the mind, language and soul of those it deprived of freedom.

I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to school, he earns a degree for knowing the white man, but not for knowing himself . All he learns about himself is slavery. Slavery is not a history of a man; it's a misfortune of a race of people. The black man needs to know the dignity of our race. The only way he will get this knowledge is to take it for himself.

Me and my dad talk about important things. Things like truth and what it means to be free. Dad says books can help you. Not every book is true, he says, but the more you read, the easier it is to figure out for yourself what is true.

We have the answers, all the answers; it's the question we do not know.

The 75 Measures Every Manager Needs to Know, by Bernard Marr.

All these great biz leaders know one thing — nothing interesting can come out of your brain that you don't put in first. Having a natural curiosity and thirst for learning separates the good from the great in our experience. Happy reading!

Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.

Yes," Mr. Finchley lied bravely. Theoretically his knowledge of car driving was complete. Actually, he knew as much about them as he did about women.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.

La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

On ne lit pas impunément des niaiseries