Quotes About Knowledge

You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind. MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.

Lee poco pero con gusto, parecerás más leído que el que lo hace mucho pero aburrido.

Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada.

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Okul denen yerin asl?nda temel sorular? cevaplamad???n?, yaln?zca onlar? hayat?n gereÄŸi olarak benimsememize yard?m ettiÄŸini ç?karm??t?m.

Çünkü benim gibilerin daha sonra yaÅŸayabileceÄŸi ikinci hayat, elindeki kitaptan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Po?injao sam i sebe da doživljavam kao satkanog od one svetlosti koja je navirala iz knjige. I to me je smirivalo.

ancak karanl??? bilen ayd?nl??? anlar.

una vez terminada la vida, ese viaje en coche de caballos en un solo sentido, no puedes volver a empezar de nuevo; pero si tienes un libro entre las manos, por confuso e incomprensible que sea, cuando lo terminas puedes, si quieres, volver al principio para leerlo otra vez y comprender lo incomprensible, para comprender la vida, ¿verdad, Fatma? 1980-1983

Lo primero que aprendí en la escuela fue que había gente que era tonta, y lo segundo que algunos eran más tontos todavía.

Toutes ces choses que j'avais apprises, auxquelles j'avais cru jusque-là, n'étaient plus que des détails dépourvus de tout intérêt, et des choses que j'ignorais surgirent des recoins où elles s'étaient terrées jusque-là et me lancèrent des signaux.

He may have merely read the travel journals of Evliya Chelebi

Bu kadar kalabal?k bir ortamda öÄŸrenciye dersleri anlatarak deÄŸil ezberleterek öÄŸretmek haliyle daha etkili bir yöntemdir.

Read them, read and learn, because there's so much to do, you know.

cuando a uno se le contagiaba el mal de la ciencia, resultaba tan imposible escapar de él como de la peste...

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

Knowledge, then, is one of the secret keys which unlock the hidden mysteries of a successful life.

Read or Starve. Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an equivalent of energy, attention to detail, trustworthiness, punctuality, professional knowledge, good address, common sense, and other marketable qualities.