Quotes About Knowledge

Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.

You should see the way this college is studying!

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

commencement sans fin. Tant qu'il y aura des livres, personne, jamais, n'aura le dernier mot. Belle-Ile, le 23 juillet 1989.

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

Desire baffles knowledge and power.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

It is not in a man's creed, but in his deeds; not in his knowledge, but in his sympathy, that there lies the essence of what is good and of what will last in human life.

Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks.