Quotes About Knowledge

PreoÈ›ii deÈ›ineau o putere care nu era întodeauna egalat? de cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele pe care le aveau.

from her training, that

Nosotros creemos estar experimentando la austeridad, pero no conocemos el significado de la palabra.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot help to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

She had always taught her sons that information could make a man's fortune—or save him from ruin.

What don't I know?

Uneori e mai bine s? nu spui ceea ce ?tie toat? lumea.

Non parlare mai di quanto costi alcunché. Rimani calma e imperturbabile qualunque cosa accada. Ricorda che la campagna è preferibile alla città, l'ozio al lavoro, il vecchio al nuovo, e il rango è più importante del denaro. Devi sapere un po' di tutto, ma non essere davvero esperta in nulla.

Na verdade, tinha a impressão de que possuía mais informação e compreendia menos as coisas.

I see everything, but understand nothing!

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

she followed their expert lead and laughed along—they knew the secret of black, that it could not be made blacker, and if neither could it be made lighter, it could still be made funnier.

I've thought of everything, know what I mean?

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit, and intelligence.

even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge"—and where is the empirical proof for that?

Even science itself was held to be no more true than poetry. (Seriously.) There simply was no difference between fact and fiction, news and novels, data and fantasies. In short, there was "no truth" anywhere.

Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

How did he do it? First of all, with the help of an outstanding teacher and librarian named Alcuin of York, he collected books and had them copied. People don't always realise that only three or four antique manuscripts of the Latin authors are still in existence: our whole knowledge of ancient literature is due to the collecting and copying that began under Charlemagne, and almost any classical text that survived until the eighth century has survived till today.