Quotes About Knowledge

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...

Does nobody understand?

Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.

Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world?

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin line there all round everything. [...] It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric?

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

A learner rather Stephen's answer to Deasy who says You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong. (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)

Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.

We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides

Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de los otros por sí mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo.

King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun.

The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.

always read with out reading u cant be any thing

maestro di color che sanno.

Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

There is an art, Mr Daedalus, in lighting a fire. —So I see, sir. A very useful art. —That's it: a useful art. We have the useful arts and we have the liberal arts.

Me dice que tengo unas ideas muy raras y que he leído demasiado. Falso. he leído poco y entendido menos.

The party is a grand one and infinite in nature and like the music of the spheres thunderous in its presence, and I realized finally that the invitation to it comes with the sunrise and a clear eye and a good heart and the knowledge that we're already inside eternity and need not fear any longer.

Like many my age, I believe people in groups are to be feared and that arguing with others is folly and the knowledge of one generation cannot be passed down to the next.

He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future.