Quotes About Knowledge

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

Por mais revolucionárias que sejam, disse, as pessoas não podem viver sem livros. Sem livros não compreenderíamos o mundo; sem livros não poderíamos desenvolver; sem livros, a natureza não pode servir a humanidade.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

In these pages, the Professor had walked beyond beaten paths, looking for truth in a place no one knows.

Root always showed amazing insight when it came to the Professor.

Few people here have any need of novels

Allí donde se queman los libros, se acaba quemando también persona

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

As I headed down the library steps, I turned back to look. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever. Apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.

So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?

And it helped that he forgot what he'd taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I

Life isn't going to be easier, nor is anyone going to make a fortune, just because they know something about prime numbers.

No era una vergüenza el no saber, sino solo una señal que podía llevar hacia una nueva verdad.

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

I ran my fingers over the lines of the formula, a long chain of numbers and symbols that flowed from one page to the next. As I followed the chain, link by link, the room faded and I found myself in a dark, silent place of numbers. But I felt no fear, certain in the knowledge that the Professor would guide me toward eternal, unchangeable truths.

The mathematical order is beautiful precisely because it has no effect on the real world. Life isn't going to be easier, nor is anyone going to make a fortune, just because they know something about prime numbers. Of course, lots of mathematical discoveries have practical applications, no matter how esoteric they may seem. …. But those things aren't the goal of mathematics. The only goal is to discover the truth.

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.