Quotes About Knowledge

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by them, suggested to some Hittite genius the idea of inventing a similar means of intercommunication for his own people.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Destroy knowledge?" I said. "The only point of existence, if there is one at all, is in the accumulation of the collective intelligence of the sentient beings of the universe." "Even dangerous intelligence?" "Intelligence is neutral. Application is everything." She sighed. "Says the evil genius." "Evil is a relative term.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget that we have still to make a study of 'and'.

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca, keempat membaca dan kelima baru menulis.

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

Paduan fikir, buku; himpun kuasa, kubu.

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.

Thomas Edison was a graduate of Cooper Union. Like Otis, he is principally famous for things he didn't do. He didn't invent electricity, or the lightbulb, the phonograph or the movies. These misappropriations didn't bother him much: he didn't correct folk. What he was good at, what he really knew, was patents.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.