Quotes About Knowledge

Education does not promise success, but makes it easier.

Znaš li šta me zbunjuje? Primje?ujem kako se proteklih sedmica promijenila slika koju sam sebi složio o tvome ocu. Pristupam mu s više obzira. To me zbunjuje jer mi pokazuje koliko su ograni?ena ?vrsta znanja i uvjerenja, koliko su nepovezana s iskustvima.

That's what I wanted from the world, to feel nothing. To feel nothing and not be involved, for everything to stay comfortably outside myself and not get in. How did people survive all this knowledge of suffering in the world? How did they carry it around, day after day, and not go mad?

Not knowing the right definitions is no different from not having the right tools to fix a burst water pipe.

I touched my reflection with a fingertip. My reflection felt nothing. That's what I wanted from the world, to feel nothing. To feel nothing and not be involved, for everything to stay comfortably outside myself and not get in. How did people survive all this knowledge of suffering in the world? How did they carry it around, day after day, and not go mad? And what would I wear tomorrow?

I want to learn, to wander and ask and think and listen like…like a priest of a prince." "Not gold?" "Gold comes to priests and princes.

Bishop Rhiel says a book is full of secret signs that tell a story. A god's story. It sounds as though it should be interesting, but it isn't.

No one but her uncle knew that under Fursey's tutelage she could make her letters or that she understood Latin if it was spoken slowly-and even he seemed content to let her learn privately.

She should have expected her mother to know she knew.

She looked like a tear-streaked maid sleepless under the weight on unbearable knowledge. She smiled.

She heard the secret, perhaps a secret no one wholly mortal should hear.

Good surveillence and good books don't mix.

Unusual to find a caterer who knows Caesar's commentary." "You really know how to endear yourself to a girl.

Now his knowledge was her knowledge.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

Reading Nietzsche as a response is not understanding him. Nietzsche is an immense interrogation.

Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its propositions into norms, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.