Quotes About Knowledge

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.

Les gens de qualite savent tout sans avoir jamais rien appris. Les choses ne valent que ce qu'on les fait valoir. J'ai une delicatesse furieuse pour tout ce que je porte; et jusqu'a mes chaussettes, je ne puis rien souffrir que ne soit de la bonne ouvriere.

Aspire to the knowledge which is in the family, and feel the sweet charms which the love of study instils into peoples hearts. Far from being a submissive slave to the laws of men, wed yourself to Philosophy, sister, which elevates us above the whole human race, and invests reason with sovereign sway, subjecting to her laws the animal part, of which the gross appetite places us on a level with brutes.

You have believed very wrongly, and I will be bound that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Así va el mundo. Muchos adquieren opinión de doctos, no por lo que efectivamente saben, sino por el concepto que forma de ellos la ignorancia de los demás.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

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Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

I kneeled in front of the E M T chair, in front of the mirror on the medicine cabinet, and wiped the rest of the makeup away. My skin was raw, pink and new. The ambulance had a single round light in the middle of the ceiling. The light cast long shadows under my nose, ears, eyes, and chin, and in the shadows I was young and I was a crone, in the exact same moment. That's it, I thought: life is short. The only value of wated time is knowledge. p.295

All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

We have come to mistake information for knowledge.

Though contrary to what the Old Man would have me believe, the vocabulary of servitude is not built upon my knowledge of foreign words but rather on my ability to swallow them.

The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

The information is now in your hands for you to enjoy in the way that suits you best. Learn it all, or learn a little -- the choice is yours. Have fun.

I didn't know about beauty, he had thought. Nobody ever told me.

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one.