Quotes About Knowledge

You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

Gyermekkorodban, ahogy nÅ'ttél, úgy erÅ'södött benned a gyanú, hogy mindenki más be van avatva valami alapvetÅ' titokba, mely elÅ'tted zárva maradt. A többiek mind tudták, hogy mit csinálnak.

Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.

Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket! We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us.

That's what I like about a well-educated man. If he contemplates the obvious long enough, he finally gets a clue.

She thought of all she had learned about Harry tonight and hugged the intimate information to herself.

You read those pop-psych books?" "I was engaged to a psychologist for a while a year and a half ago. You hang out with shrinks, you pick up a few things." "Nothing contagious, I trust.

Since the days of ancient Alexandria libraries had stood for all the best that mankind could achieve. The very existence of libraries held out hope for the future of the human race, as far as Letty was concerned. If people had enough sense to collect and store information and make it available to everyone, perhaps they would someday have enough sense to use that wisdom to stop wars and find a cure for cancer.

Nothing is true but what is never said.

Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests.

The universe is mystagogic. It talks without knowing it, and without anything meaningful in its speech. Pedagogues speak in full knowledge of what they are saying, but they treat us like children.

The historic time of the event, the psychological time of affects, the subjective time of judgement and will, the objective time of reality - these are all simultaneously thrown into question by real time. If there were a subject of history, a subject of knowledge, a subject of power, these have all disappeared in the obliteration by real time of distance, of the pathos of distance, in the integral realization of the world by information.

science never sacrifices itself, it is always murderous)

We discovered primitive societies, America, the atom, the unconscious, viruses. But the consequences of this expansion of the field of knowledge escape us. We believe we discovered these things innocently in the peaceful realm of science. But they, too, discovered us and have broken in on our world - just deserts for our breaking in on theirs.

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.

Cet amour le ravageait d'autant plus qu'il précédait la connaissance de l'amour. C'était un mal vague, intense, contre lequel il n'existe aucun remède, un désir chaste sans sexe et sans but.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

On nous veut avec les stigmates des grandes écoles, je le veux avec les stigmates de la vie.

if you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that knowledge, even if he loves you (or seems to), even if he chooses you (or seems to), even if he promises to make you happy (which no one, not one person on the planet, can possibly do). And part of her, a big part of her, had obviously wanted to be the one who told them this. Because I am such a competent

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I will simply ask: What is philosophy? What do the writings of the best known philosophers contain? What are the lessons of these friends of wisdom? To listen to them, would one not take them for a troupe of charlatans crying out in a public square, each from his own corner: Come to me. I'm the only one who is not wrong?

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

I will explain myself; but this will be to take the most useless, most superfluous precaution; for everything that I will tell you could only be understood by those who do not need to be told