Quotes About Knowledge

she wondered if she owned a faint idea of many things, and a strong idea of only a few. As if she had developed an immunity to depth. That she only, now, skimmed the surface.

I don't remember which philosopher it was who said: There is never any shortage of old women.

She couldn't know everything about him, of course, because even Sarah didn't know that he was in love with her. But Mrs. Decker knew enough.

A wise man said a long ago, to realize that one is ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial enriqueció nuestros conocimientos con los estudios sobre «psicopatología de las masas» (si se me permite parafrasear el título del libro de LeBon), pues nos legó la guerra de nervios y la experiencia imborrable de los campos de concentración.

if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.

If you could learn from me how to do a brain surgery in as short a time as I am learning this roadwork, I would have great respect for you.

However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, if at all, only at its end, on the verge of death? And doesn't this final meaning, too, depend on whether or not the potential meaning of each single situation has been actualized to the best of the respective individual's knowledge and belief?

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

T]he real danger does not lie in the fact that there is a lack or a loss of universality of knowledge among the specialists. The true danger lies in the pretense and claim of totality of knowledge.

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

knowledge, Tilly did volunteer and, for whatever reasons, was approved for transport.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

el acto del amor y el acto del conocimiento se designaran en hebreo con la misma palabra.

he also discovered a correlation between their opinions and the conviction with which they stated them. It seemed that the less someone knew, the more forcefully he tried to state his case.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Happy he who was able to know the causes of things (felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas), and who trampled beneath his feet all fears, inexorable fate, and the roar of devouring hell.

Nunc scio quit sit amor.

Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.

obscuris vera involvens:

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. (on Lucretius)