Quotes About Knowledge

Books are a pleasure and they anchor your greater values.

You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there's this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And in learning the bad, the uncomfortable, the messy- it's what you take away that counts. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you leave? Pull tighter? Ignore it? Use it to fall in love even deeper? That's when you learn more about yourself.

freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

As I am, I parrot no one; I don't venture to fly to heights at which one needs wings that I don't have. But I appreciate any crumb of knowledge that affects my feelings, which, for their part, are never at rest. I am an inferno of desires. The earth and life are never too great for my ability to feel them.

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.

alternately on his thickly moustached face; he spoke with the unassailable confidence that a college-education in the midst of general illiteracy gives one.

All, I find is Google. ?#?iampm?

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

But some things are best grasped without the sense of sight.

Il libro è come il padre: ti svezza, ti irrobustisce, ti fa crescere dentro la curiosità del mondo ma è anche una trappola che ti spinge ad accontentarti delle meraviglie che contiene. Per partire devi a volte rinnegare il padre, perché non puoi affrontare il mondo col suo peso sulle spalle.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.

Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery

Quien no conoce nada, no ama nada. Quien no puede hacer nada, no comprende nada. Quien nada comprende, nada vale. Pero quien comprende también ama, observa, ve… Cuanto mayor es el conocimiento inherente a una cosa, más grande es el amor… Quien cree que todas las frutas maduran al mismo tiempo que las frutillas nada sabe acerca de las uvas.

Quem, nada pode fazer, nada compreende. Quem nada compreende, nada vale.

quem compreende também ama, observa, vê... Quanto mais conhecimento houver inerente numa coisa tanto maior o amor...

For who could be taught the knowledge of experience from paper? Since paper has the property to produce lazy and sleepy people, who are haughty and learn to persuade themselves and to fl y without wings. . . . Therefore the most fundamental thing is to hasten to experience.

To grow in love and service, you must value ignorance as much as knowledge and failure as much as success.

The English word "truth" comes from a Germanic root that also gives rise to our word "troth," as in the ancient vow "I pledge thee my troth." With this word one person enters a covenant with another, a pledge to engage in mutually accountable and transforming relationship...to know in truth is to become betrothed, to engage the known with one's whole self...to know in truth is to be known as well.

it is disconcerting to learn that while 73 percent of Americans can name the Three Stooges, only 42 percent can name the three branches of government.6

First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial. No matter how we devote ourselves to reading and research, teaching requires a command of content that always eludes our grasp. Second, the students we teach are larger than life and even more complex. To see them clearly and see them whole and respond to them wisely in the moment requires a fusion of Freud and Solomon that few of us achieve.

ontology, epistemology, pedagogy, and ethics

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.