Quotes About Knowledge

I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder.

We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.

Az életnek, a szerelemnek, a könyvtáraknak nincs jövÅ'jük.

what stars, what thought and sadness up above, and what ignorance below.

az ostobaság ugyanis mindig a zsúfoltság szinonimája, és semmi sincs jobban tele, mint egy üres fej.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade

Life, love, libraries, have no future.

How little I knew of his life! But now I was learning something every instant. The door standing slightly ajar was the best link imaginable.

The years are passing, my dear, and presently nobody will know what you and I know.

What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back...Any true scientist (not, of course,the fraudulent mediocrity, whose only treasure is the ignorance he hides like a bone) should be capable of experiencing that sensuous pleasure of direct and divine knowledge. He may be twenty and he may be eighty-five but without that tingle there is no science.

Yatmadan önce okuyabileceÄŸiniz iyi bir kitaba sahip olduÄŸunuzu bilmek zevklerin en büyüÄŸüdür.

Mother, what's chtonic?" That, too, you'd explain, Appending: "Would you like a tangerine?" "No. Yes. And what does sempiternal mean?" You'd hesitate. And lustily I'd roar The answer from my desk through the closed door.

Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

Esiste, nella scala dimensionale del mondo, un punto di incontro tra conoscenza ed immaginazione. Un punto al quale si perviene rimpicciolendo le cose grandi ed ingrandendo quelle piccole.

the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. However, I am being left in that ignorance which is tolerable only to those living at liberty

I know something. I know something. But expression of it comes so hard !

He was an amateur of sex lore

What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back.

Zij verslindt boeken, jaar in jaar uit zonder ooit toe te staan dat een boek haar verslindt. Zij leest niet om de dingen beter te begrijpen, maar om ze op afstand te houden. Een boek, dat is een haardscherm tussen haar en de rest van de wereld.

Like a good gardener who knows when the soil needs alkali and when acid, the competent tennis pro should be able to help the development of your game.

fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We