Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat, n quid veri non audeat - Historiju trebamo poznavati kako ne bi govorili neistinu i kako imali hrabrosti za istinu

Our day-to-day concepts do not capture what a concept is because they do not allow the full force of what a concept can do.

Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?

I have believed in the value of knowledge and of truth. And I have believed that the quality of a life is not measured by money, celebrity, or material goods but by richness of mind, generosity of spirit, and by meaningful human relationships.

The first step is making sure you, as the Top, do, in fact, know what the hell you're doing.

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

In a true emergency, there is no place better than a library and no hero more helpful than a librarian - someone who knows where to find exactly the right book for the occasion.

A mystery is not something that cannot be known, but something that for the time being is hidden.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I'm subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.

Theology always gets into trouble when its practitioners think they know what God is like apart from what revelation says God is like.