Quotes About Knowledge

Wenn eine Gesellschaft vor ihrer literarischen Kultur keine Achtung mehr hat, wenn die Achtung nicht so beschaffen ist, daß sie es als achtenswert empfindet, über diese Kultur einigermaßen Bescheid zu wissen, wenn sie also das unaufhebbare Nichtbescheidwissen der Mehrheit - ihre Unbildung - nicht mehr als bedauerlichen Mangel empfindet, der nur durch die Bildung einer kulturellen Elite kompensiert werden kann, dann ist nichts mehr zu machen.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2)

True,'' Ida Belle said, ''but despite all of that, he's still interested. I may be an old maid, but I know what male interest looks like.'' Gertie waved a hand at her. ''Walter slipping you a free pack of toilet paper with your grocery order hardly qualifies as the ultimate in male interest. But despite Ida Belles overblown description of her knowledge of how men think, I think she's right this time

Perhaps the knowledge that certain behaviors are in some sense hardwired in your spouse—rather than a conscious choice to stick it to you—will help dial down the frustration.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

now he knows

Si no te interesas por las cosas, no aprendes nada. - Amarte es mi destino

I was seeing something I didn't understand and did not want to. No I wasn't. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

The God concept, of course, originated from mankind's innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of their own history. Lacking an appreciation of their own historical experience and the dignity, even glory, of the actions of their own people, the colonized are encouraged to think that they have no alternative to oppressive conditions.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.