Quotes About Knowledge

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

To learn is to live

The quiz. Earlier. The twenty-sided polygon. Well, a twenty-sided polygon is called an icosagon. I knew the answer but didn't tell you because I didn't want you to mock me. And now I don't really care because I don't think me knowing some things that you don't should bother you.

of Plato's Republic and Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, which she did own in her root

In every human life there is a moment. A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever.

Between life and death there is a library

It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility. Understand?

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines. ... But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that comes clear.

But because of that luck, we need to cherish this life we have. And if we can not only feel lucky but also other things—calm, happy, healthy—then why not? Why not know what the world can do to us? Because that knowledge can help us.

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon)

You are the library card.

es un libro de los que leen para sentirse inteligentes, o de los que fingen no haber leído nunca para seguir pareciendo inteligentes?

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Y vivir la segregación en mis carnes? No, gracias. Creo que prefiero quedarme en casa y ser un ignorante.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.