Quotes About Knowledge

He confined the Knowledge of governing within very narrow Bounds; to common Sense and Reason, to Justice and Lenity, to the Speedy Determination of Civil and criminal Causes; with some other obvious Topicks which are not worth considering.

Jonathan Swift

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

The first man and woman knew it all; they had pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge, before they tasted the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Paradise. Adam and Eve enjoyed not only perfect knowledge but perfect power; and there was no death in the world. Once we recover what our First Parents knew, we will conquer death again.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.

Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!

Ben cenneti hep bir çeÅŸit kütüphane olarak düÅŸlemiÅŸimdir.

Yo siempre me habia imaginado el paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Paradise will be a kind of library

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.