Quotes About Knowledge

Jack. "When I was your age," he

You should read more Oscar Wilde," said Charlie, "and less Maynard Keynes.

understand the

I'm 67 years old. it took me a long time to grow up to know that almost everything we hear is not true.

To start with, look at all the books.

There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by a chain. Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions...The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence.

The magisterial presence of all those potentially readable words stopped her in her tracks.

All wisdom ends in paradox

But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Miért tanulunk történelmet? Azért, hogy megértsük a jelent vagy azért, hogy megússzuk?

He explained that he had arrived at college without knowing much about religion, and how, from reading English literature, he'd begun to realize how ignorant he was. The world had been formed by beliefs he knew nothing about. 'That was the beginning,' he said, 'realizing how stupid I was.

As soon as the cry reached my father, however, he marched into the kitchen to tell his mother that, this time at least, her spoon was wrong. "And how you know so much?" Desdemona asked him. To which he replied what many Americans of his generation would have: "It's science, Ma.

And the three astronauts now orbiting the moon were the only people on or off the Earth who knew they had succeeded.

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

It is wrong," Bohr once said, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.

L'information est une monnaie très utile. Pour chaque question à laquelle je répondrai au sujet de Brewster, je t'en poserai une en retour. - C'est tellement Hannibal Lecter de ta part.

One can never have too many librarian friends.

I understood that at eight years of age, but I had forgotten it by eighteen.

learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books, and as long as there are books, there will be libraries.

Understanding that all sciences are essentially one rather than marking them off into distinct realms that share borders but no territory will, I think, increase our comprehension of them all in ways that we cannot yet imagine.

Teach me something new, she said, and he bent her back onto the bed and she shivered as his body slid against hers. - Okay, Phin said. But pay attention, Julie Ann, there'll be a quiz.

She wished Martin hadn't taken his Encyclopaedia Britannica with him when they split up. She missed that more than she missed him.

dass die Erde eher wie eine Müllhalde ist, die verschiedenen Zeiten fallen im Dunkeln, den Mund mit Erde gefüllt, übereinander her, die eine begattet die andre, ohne fruchtbar zu sein, und der Fortschritt besteht immer wieder nur darin, dass die, die auf dieser Erde herumgehen, von alldem nichts wissen.

He can't remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors ask if he's read all the books on his shelves. . . .