Quotes About Knowledge

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

I ask merely for information.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

La ventaja de jugar con fuego, lady Caroline, es que no nos quemamos. Sólo se quema la gente que no sabe jugar con él.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary.

Every experience is of value.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.