Quotes About Knowledge

S ?ímkoliv, co si poÃ…â"¢ídíÅ¡, vykládá, získáÅ¡ jenom jednu vÄ›c navíc, kterou pak ztratíÅ¡.

Der Gedanke hat seinen Reiz, dass ich längst dem Untergang geweiht war und dass alle, die ich liebte, mehr über mich wussten als ich selbst. Wenn dem so ist, bin ich von allem freigesprochen, was ich falsch gemacht habe. Ich bin wehrlos und ahnungslos, aber ohne Schuld.

He was tired of learning history. He wanted to be it. Charlie wanted the history of the future to be him.

I want you to know more than just what people think is safe to tell you," she said.

Lo que había visto en aquel instante ni siquiera era una montaña. No era un recurso natural. No tenía nombre. -Esa es la gran meta- dijo-. Encontrar una cura para el conocimiento.

Bize inand?r?lan bu gerçek d??? dünyada ya??yoruz, hiçbir teste tabii tutulmad???m?z için neleri kurtarabileceÄŸimiz konusunda hiç bir fikrimiz yok

Old books, the kind that give off the smell of dust and decay, an odor Balastair associates with the scent of pure knowledge. Knowledge of new things. Knowledge of new places. Every book a doorway—a cabinet of curiosities opening to a new land.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

I've never felt that the presence of God and the science of humankind were incompatible. It is enough for me to feel that God has given us the skills to decipher His or Her or Their universe accordingly—science is just how we map that creation, how we understand it, and how we use it to better ourselves." He told her it was okay to believe in all of it.

For him, libraries served as that escape: They were routinely calm, if not always quiet, and of course they surrounded him with books. Sweet, sweet books. Each book, a treasure chest of knowledge.

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information.

If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information. Simply being able to know things—true things!—meant the world to him.

Janey knows how to install new memory in her little MacBook Air laptop.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote. We have the program in other

They couldn't invent answers and assume they were true because they hadn't yet disproved them.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." — Cicero

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.

atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.