Quotes About Knowledge

La culture, c'est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l'étale.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

Il faut apprendre la terre, c'est indispensable, savoir ce qu'elle est. Il faut l'aimer sans niaiserie, en reconnaître les principales maternels et nourriciers. Il faut la travailler en tenant compte du savoir et du sentiment, avec la force du corps. (p.242)

We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of The Phenomenon of Man.

But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.

Had he known of this on the way over—but of course that was the thing about information. Without it, a person suffered enormous complications.

Of course. MAN—an acronym." The mouth on the screen quirked with obscure humor. "Oh? What do the letters stand for?" "Multi-Appendaged-Numbskull, of course. Every creature who is worthy of the title of sapience knows that.

It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error.

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar. p. 105

Become what you are, having learned what that is.

Todos os que afirmam saber as coisas sobre as quais medito, seja por tê-las ouvido de mim, seja por tê-las ouvido de outros, seja por tê-las descoberto sozinhos, não é possível, segundo meu parecer, que tenham entendido algo desse objeto. Sobre essas coisas não existe um texto escrito meu nem existirá jamais.

Temer a morte, Atenienses, não é mais que julgar ser sábio,sem o ser, porque é imaginar que se sabe o que se não sabe. É que ninguém sabe o que é a morte nem se, por acaso, ela será para o homem o maior dos bens. Mas temem-na como se soubessem com segurança que é o maior dos males.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil. -The Last Days of Socrates

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance