Quotes About Knowledge

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

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Non capisci una fava. Celina lifted her chin to him. Tu sei una fava, she shot back. He was the one who didn't know anything.

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.

It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand and always half-understanding. He learns to believe what he does not understand, and that is a step on the road to faith.

And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is the one barrier beyond which we cannot see. There is no hope but faith, no knowledge but the acceptance of ignorance. Yet still she hoped that one day she would know.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

I will not allow books to prove any thing. But how shall we prove any thing? We never shall.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Give him a book, and he will read all day long.

her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.