Quotes About Knowledge

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

the books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso. Es saber, estar al tanto. Los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde".

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

Las mujeres sienten curiosidad sin mezcla, su mente es indagatoria y chismosa (...) no saben que los actos se cometen solos o que los pone en marcha una sola palabra, necesitan probar, no prevén, quizá ellas sí están dispuestas a saber casi siempre, no se acuerdan que después de saber todo cambia a veces

A verdade nunca resplandece, como diz a fórmula, porque a única verdade é a que não se conhece nem se transmite, a que não se traduz em palavras nem em imagens, a encoberta e não averiguada, e talvez por isso se conte tanto ou se conte tudo, para que nunca tenha ocorrido nada, uma vez que se conta

Elég az, ha nem akarják, hogy halljunk valamit, és mi mindent elkövetünk, hogy megtudjunk valamit, az meg sem fordul a fejünkben, hogy olykor a mi érdekünkben nem avatnak be, nehogy csalódjunk, vagy belekeveredjünk valamibe, hogy ne lássuk olyan sötétnek a világot, mint amilyen.

nadie sabe nada a lo que no ha asistido

e assumir uma enorme responsabilidade, a de revelar a alguém o que talvez não quisesse saber, e nunca se sabe o que alguém não quer saber até se lhe fazer a revelação, e então o possível mal não tem remédio e é tarde para a retirar, para voltar atrás.

Yo podría creer que nunca te he conocido si no supiera tu nombre

ignoramos lo que se fraguó entre la gente que nos precede, y lo más seguro es que lo ignoremos siempre, porque siempre llegamos tarde a la vida de las personas.

uno nunca sale ligero ni indemne de las averiguaciones. Me

Dünya sürprizlerle ve gizlerle dolu. Yak?n?m?zdaki birilerini tan?d???m?z? düÅŸünürüz ama zamanla bilmediklerinizin bildiklerimizden çok daha fazla olduÄŸunu görürüz, zamanla daha az tan?n?r kar??daki, zamanla daha çok karanl?k nokta oluÅŸur. Ayd?nlanan çok ÅŸey olsa bile karanl?kta kalanlar her zaman daha fazlad?r.

No he querido saber, pero he sabido […]

No one can experience everything first hand; in fact, no one can experience more than a few dozen things even through books and courses and other first-hand descriptions. We have to rely on other people's experiences in order to continue broadening our world - even if, once we have heard those other experiences, we want to go out and have our own, to test their descriptions in practice.

Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.

The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.

We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders"5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground.

The heading says it all: inquire to learn. And only to learn. You can tell whether a question will help the conversation or hurt it by thinking about why you asked it. The only good answer is "To learn.

we don't know what we don't know.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Hab.