Quotes About Knowledge

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me entrego a las sorpresas más inesperadas. Es a la hora de escribir que muchas veces me vuelvo consciente de cosas, de las cuales, siendo inconsciente, antes no sabía que sabía.

No soporté más y estoy confensando que ya sabía una verdad que nunca tuvo utilidad y aplicación, y que tendría miedo de aplicar, pues no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.

Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência.

Aunque en el fondo no quisiera comprender. Sabía que aquello era imposible y todas las veces había pensado que si había comprendido era por haber comprendido mal. Comprender era siempre un error - prefería la vastedad amplia y libre y sin errores del no-entender. Era malo, pero, al menos, se sabía que se estaba en plena condición humana.

Macabéa, Hail Mary, full of grace, serene promised land, land of forgiveness, the time must come, ora pro nobis, and I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you to the bone through an incantation that comes from me to you. To scatter oneself wildly and yet behind everything pulses an inflexible geometry.

Só há dois modos de descobrir que a Terra é redonda: ou estudando em livros, ou sendo feliz.

Meu erro, no entanto, devia ser o caminho de uma verdade: pois só quando erro é que saio do que conheço e do que entendo. Se a "verdade" fosse aquilo que posso entender – terminaria sendo apenas uma verdade pequena, do meu tamanho.

Macabéa, Hail Mary, full of grace, serene promised land, land of forgiveness, the time must come, ora pro nobis, and I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you to the bone through an incantation that comes from me to you. To scatter oneself wildly and yet behind everything pulses an inflexible geometry. Macabéa remembered the docks. The docks went to the heart of her life.

Saber será tal vez el asesinato de mi alma humana.

My error, however, had to be the path of truth: for only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If 'truth' were what I can understand…it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law — for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . the renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my own unknown law, and if I don't carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

There's something very comforting about books.

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

The science of life… is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.