Quotes About Knowledge

There is no enjoyment like reading!

There is no other enjoyment like reading

My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

All this she must possess», added Darcy, «and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading».

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than that of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

He was evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading

She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge.

These matters are always a secret, till it is found out that every body knows them.

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

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

educate them.

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

The first place I go in someone's house is their bookshelves. You can tell exactly who they are.

The place she felt happiest, the place she found her solace and joy, was in the pages of books. She

Still, it is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It has long been recognized that getting an education is effective for bettering oneself and one's chances in the world. But a degree and an education are not necessarily synonymous.

No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning, whether the planning is creative, coordinating or predictive.

Nevertheless, aims of this kind cannot be pursued unless those responsible for diagnosis, for devising tactics, for recommending actions and for carrying out actions know what they are doing. They must know it not in some generalized way, but in terms of the precise and unique places in a city with which they are dealing. Much of what they need to know they can learn from no one but the people of the place, because nobody else knows enough about it.

you were not born yesterday. Your soul was not born yesterday, in those terms, but before the annals of time as you think of time.

You are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. Your brain is far from an empty slate, waiting for the first imprint of experience; it is already equipped with complete equations, telling you who you are and where you have come from. Nor do you wipe that slate clean, symbolically speaking, before you write your life upon it. Instead, you draw upon what has gone before: the experiences of your ancestors, back through time immemorial.

if you did not feel the need to kill animals to gain knowledge, then you would not have wars, either. You would understand the balances of nature far better.

there is a rich vein of creativity and knowledge available to each according to his abilities, just beneath the surface of usual consciousness. I believe that it is a part of our human heritage, accessible to some extent to any person who explores the inner dimensions of the mind.

The physicists have their hands on the doorknob. If they paid more attention to their dreams, they would know what questions to ask.