Quotes About Knowledge

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

[Ezra Pound] was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Ma io avevo più letto libri che vissuto giorni, nel mio così fuggitivo, così inefficace passaggio lungo le strade degli uomini.

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

So the peak of human knowledge or philosophy is to recognize its own uselessness—if man were still the same as he was in the beginning—and to undo the damage that it has done, and return man to the condition in which he would always have been if it had never existed.

Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.

Ahi ahi, ma conosciuto il mondo Non cresce, anzi si scema, e assai più vasto L'etra sonante e l'alma terra e il mare Al fanciullin, che non al saggio, appare.

The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them

Le moyen le plus sûr de cacher aux autres les limites de son savoir est de ne jamais les dépasser.

may be known, but is in no way felt" (Z 1099) and the youthful illusions (l'inganno giovanile) that survive into old age (

he is one of those good teachers who "are capable of retracing in detail, and holding accurately in their minds the origins, progress, mode of development, in short, the history of their own notions and thoughts, their knowledge and their intellect" (Z 1376).

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth [D4].