Quotes About Knowledge

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.

I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect, and in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.

Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge. Love is less subject to change than respect. Hatred is more lasting than mere aversion. And the driving force which has brought about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which has urged them to action.

The art of reading and studying consists in this: Remember the essentials and forget what is inessential.

Ich kann nur für etwas kämpfen, das ich liebe. Ich kann nur lieben, was ich respektiere. Und um eine Sache zu respektieren, muss ich zumindest einiges darüber wissen.

i will not "learn" politics but let politics teach me

The old beliefs will be brought back to honor again.... The whole secret knowledge of nature, of the divine, the demonic.... We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race.

Het oude geloof zal weer in ere worden hersteld, de geheime kennis van de natuur, van het demonische. We zullen het christelijke vernis afwassen en een religie naar voren brengen die eigen is aan ons ras.

La llamada "intelectualidad" ve con infinito desdén a todo aquel que no pasó por las escuelas oficiales, para dejarse llenar de "sabiduría". Nunca se pregunta: ¿Qué sabe el individuo?, y sí: ¿Qué estudió? Para esas criaturas "cultas" más vale la cabeza hueca, bien protegida por títulos, que el muchacho más despierto.

Só se pode lutar pelo que se ama, só se pode amar o que se respeita e respeitar o que pelo menos se conhece.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

I even love the smell of books.

Leventhal's last quote is the one that rolled around in my head during the hour-long drive home: "Confidence," he said, "is what you have before you understand the problem.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

In the never, still arriving, I find you again: blue absence keeps knowledge alive, makes of October an adjusted lens. The days have almost no clouds left.