Quotes About Knowledge

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Cultura este ceea ce r?mâne dup? ce ai uitat totul.

Odata cu moartea unui b?trân piere pentru totdeauna ?i ceva din trecut ?i ceva din istorie. Ceea ce nu mai ?tiu nici eu din secretele bunicului meu, bunicii mele, unchilor mei, verilor mei, nu va putea s-o mai ?tie nimeni în urma mea.

A lifetime is too meager a window to learn Christ and the mysteries of the gospel.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas everyday!

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

They do not die ignorant of either their own follies or of life's worth. Instead, they die in the fullest possible knowledge of who they are, of what they lived for, of the mistakes that they have made.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Right now, if I were lost in the wilderness, I feel that I could probably make it out, find a way to get home. I've learned a lot, and it's been great fun. Every single one of the caves in this last book I've been in--except for one very small one--and they really are exceptional.

I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

We have the most complete and instant access to information in all of history, and we're using it to watch funny cat videos.

A scholar knows no boredom.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.