Quotes About Knowledge

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.

la pureza de quien no llegó a ser lo suficientemente impuro para saber qué cosa es la pureza.

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

C'est une belle allégorie, dans la Bible, que cet arbre de la science du bien et du mal qui produit la mort. Cet emblème ne veut-il pas dire que lorsqu'on a pénétré le fond des choses, la pert des illusions amène la mort de l'âme, c'est-à-dire un désintéressement complet sur tout ce qui touches les autres hommes?

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

all adventures involving knowledge and imagination. When Marielle drives crosstown from east to west along Sherbrooke Street in her old Plymouth, aka 'Violet,' it is 'a carousel of history and geography,' it is about straddling grammar and going off to explore the inner recesses of the images and life irrigating the brain.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

said. And it's clear, isn't it? Anyone can

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.