Quotes About Knowledge

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. --dance? Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively.

Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right—

We think we know . Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.

Nereye gideceÄŸimizi belki biliyorlar, belki de bilmiyorlard?. Ama nerede olduÄŸumuzu bilmiyorlar; çünkü biz gideceÄŸimiz yere varamad?k.

Sen biliyordun deÄŸil mi? Sizlerin bir parças? olduÄŸumu biliyordun? Sizlere öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n?m ki! Her ÅŸeyin bozuk gitmesinin nedeniyim ben. Bunu biliyorsun, deÄŸil mi?

The shameful knowledge grew in them and they did not know how to begin confession.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps.

My father was an historian

los intelectuales no pueden ser insufribles, sino hasta después de que hayan cumplido los veinticinco años; eso está en nuestros estatutos.»

I'm not stupid, you know. Quit bragging.

An examination of the work of the social doctors, however, shows that they are only more ignorant and more presumptuous than other people. We

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. [ The Sick Chamber ( The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Trinity College (Dublin) library

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.