Quotes About Knowledge

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.

It's so easy for a child to feel all wrong in the eyes of adults. And when you have no idea that what you were doing is wrong… I hated being caught unawares. It was so dangerous, so shameful not to know what I needed to know.

I had know it and never known it.

Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

As we have discovered, although on one level psychoanalysis allows us to attain higher levels of perception and self-awareness, on another level it is an exercise in becoming reconciled to the idea that we can never entirely know ourselves.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

We especially need imagination in science.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.