Quotes About Knowledge

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity would have to become its own object.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

The rest who does not know?

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books...

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

that [rational] principle alone cannot add one iota to knowledge. It can clear up obscurities, it can measure and enumerate with greater and ever greater precision, it can preserve us in the dignity and responsibility of our individual existences. But in no sense can it be said ... to expand consciousness. Only the poetic can do this: only poesy, pouring into language its creative intuitions, can preserve its living meaning and prevent it from crystalizing into a kind of algebra. (144)

A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning 'in the tip of her finger' than others acquired in a lifetime. When her house was searched in 1680 twenty-five manuscript volumes on the occult sciences were found.

Magic rituals provided emotional empowerment in the face of danger, and inspired solutions when alternative sources of knowledge (including science) were inadequate.

it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.

Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.