Quotes About Knowledge

It was soon plain to the climatologist that his host's knowledge of the global crisis was wider ranging: Poggs had conducted detailed studies of every disaster.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

?i c?r?ile pot fi mentori, ba chiar pot fi sursa unui moment de ini?iere.

I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilization reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.

Without thought or knowledge, one could have guessed that this bleak world was mountain-high, and that the mountains rising from it were mountains on top of mountains. A range of them gleamed on a far horizon like a row of dogteeth.

There was also a bottom shelf piled up with cheap editions of detective novels. Chips enjoyed these. Sometimes he took down Vergil or Xenophon and read for a few moments, but he was soon back again with Doctor Thorndyke or Inspector French.

We can never know everything. Part of what we know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A part of wisdom lies in knowing that. A part of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Every person has a right to their opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong in their facts.

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

Just because I don't call you out on something, doesn't mean I don't know about it. Don't mistake my silence for stupidity.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

The rarest thing in the world is, in knowing you know nothing.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows, sometimes I am just fighting with myself.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I make mistakes like the next person. The only real mistake is the one from which I learned nothing.

enough. Thus it is owned, possessed, directed by that which it does not know.

Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire universe arm itself to crush: a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than what kills him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage that the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this.

the Sage of Koenigsburg, Immanuel Kant, ended traditional metaphysics and made modern psychology necessary by discerning that we never know reality directly;

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

Maybe there were things in themselves men should not look at, just as there were things in the very deep bottom of the sea that it was better that men did not know about.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Have read little and understood less.

In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.