Quotes About Knowledge

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway. Prof. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were—like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.

I wasn't his son. That was another Charlie. Intelligence and knowledge had changed me, and he would resent me---as the others from the bakery resented me---because my growth diminished him.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Qualquer um pode se sentir inteligente ao lado de um imbecil.

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Sometimes ignorance is bliss

Ninguém realmente começa algo novo, sra. Nemur. Todo mundo constrói em cima das falhas de outros homens. Não existe nada original de verdade na ciência. A contribuição de cada homem à soma de conhecimento é o que conta.

InteligenÈ›a ,educaÈ›ia È™i cunoaÈ™terea au devenit niÈ™te idoli veneraÈ›i. Dar È™tiu bine c? toÈ›i aÈ›i pierdut din vedere un lucru: inteligenÈ›a È™i educaÈ›ia care f?r? sentimente omeneÈ™ti nu fac nici cât o ceap? degerat?. Nu m? înÈ›elegeÈ›i greÈ™it. InteligenÈ›a este unul dintre cele mai mari daruri ale omului. Dar de cele mai multe ori c?utarea cunoaÈ™terii exclude c?utarea dragostei.

A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything — all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know if its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Anyway I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did something but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.

Agora entendo que um dos motivos importantes para ir à universidade e obter uma educação é aprender que as coisas em que você acreditou a vida toda não são verdade, e nada é o que parece ser

On average, at least 95 percent of what you need to know you learn on the job. This is true for doctors, lawyers, nurses, investment bankers, and everyone else.

But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It's not about value; it's about knowledge.

The West is well armed for success. It knows well the devastation caused by everything about which the Orient can only dream.

Everything is told at the start. There is no progressive quest.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.

We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there.