Quotes About Knowledge

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently.

It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

Strauss shook his head. The point I've been trying to make is that this money is intended for research. No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.

the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I've got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem—they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

Cuando le dije que no sabia pensar me dijo intentalo. Mientras tenia las bendas en los ojos intente pensar. No paso nada. No se en que pensar. Alomejor si se lo pregunto me dira como tengo que pensar aora que tengo que volberme listo. Que piensan las personas que son listas. Seguro que cosas marabillosas. Me gustaria saber cosas marabillosas ya.

Ama ben zekan?n tek ba??na hiçbir anlam ta??mad???n? öÄŸrendim. Burada, sizin üniversitenizde zeka, eÄŸitim ve bilgi büyük idoller haline gelmiÅŸ. Ama ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, hepinizin atlad??? bir ÅŸey var: Sevgi ve ÅŸefkat eli deÄŸmeyen zeka ve eÄŸitim beÅŸ para etmez.

ÖÄŸrenmek tuhaf bir olay: Ne kadar derinlere gidersem, var olduÄŸunu bile bilmediÄŸim ÅŸeylerle kar??la??yorum. K?sa bir süre önce, her ÅŸeyi - dünyadaki tüm bilgileri - öÄŸrenebilirim gibi aptalca bir hisse kap?lm??t?m. Åžimdi ise, sadece onlar?n var olduÄŸunu bilebilmeyi ve bir nebzesini anlayabilmeyi ümit ediyorum.

Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I dint know they had majers in collidge. I thot it was onley in the army. Anyway

But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

I've got to realize that when they continually admonish me to speak and write simply so that people who read these reports will be able to understand me, they are talking about themselves as well. But still it's frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don't know all the answers.

Estranho sobre aprender; quanto mais longe eu vou, mais vejo o que nunca soube que sequer existia. Algum tempo atrás, totalmente imaginei que poderia aprender tudo - todo conhecimento existente. Agora espero apenas ser capaz de saber de sua existência e entender um mínimo disso.

There was no way to stop the sands of knowledge from slipping through the hourglass of my mind.

Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.