Quotes About Knowledge

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of God's arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God's grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can't grasp paradox; it is the knowledge of the soul.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

Like so much that is true, it was of no help at all.

De modo que llegó una época, quizá, en la que para algunas especies el ritmo al que aumentaba el aprendizaje alcanzó una pendiente tal que, de repente, ocurrió una cosa completamente nueva; un animal podía aprender cosas, transmitirlas a otro y a otro con la suficiente rapidez para que no se perdieran para la especie. Así fue posible una acumulación de saber de la especie. A veces a esto se le ha llamado enlazar el tiempo.

Una de las maneras de hacer que la ciencia se detenga sería hacer experimentos únicamente en las áreas de las que se conoce la ley.

You know, I always think about going back to college. Just to catch up on all those books that supposedly shape our lives but nobody ever reads." "Yeah? Like what?" . . . "Well, there's the Bible. You ever read it?" "Parts," said Lewis. "Well, this whole wrecked civilization is based on a book most people have only read parts of.

Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge.

You really shouldn't drink potions if you don't know what they do. - Aunt Polly

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Firm commitment. One percent fee. Target date May eighth." "One percent?" Todd voiced Tara's own reaction. These deals usually went for six to seven percent, a point or two higher when there was a firm commitment, which meant the bank was responsible for buying any shares that didn't sell in the initial float. How had Harvey agreed to those terms, and how had Todd not known?

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

The value of a good education has never left me.

56 percent of learned information is forgotten within an hour of being encoded. By the time one day has passed, another 10 percent is gone. A month after the information is learned, 80 percent of it has vanished. How

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

What would this have been, if it had more power to give?" "This may come as a surprise to you," he replied dryly, "But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct." "Which means you don't know." "Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know." - Kaylin & Tiamaris

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

every child got a right to learn,

Old folk sure had a way of pointing out the obvious.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.