Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Es mußte so kommen«, sagte er nachdenklich mit leiser Stimme. »Dieses Übermaß von Betriebsamkeit und Stolz auf unser Wissen mußte uns in den Zweifel zurückschleudern. Dies Jahrhundert, das schon soviel Licht gebracht hat, mußte mit der Drohung einer von neuem hereinbrechenden Finsternis enden.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

Bu suçlamalarda bulunurken, 29 temmuz 1881 tarihli Bas?n Yasas?n?n 30 ve 31. maddelerine kar?? geldiÄŸimi, bu yasan?n lekeleme suçlar?na ceza belirlediÄŸini bilmiyor deÄŸilim. Ä°steyerek kendimi tehlikeye at?yorum.

Por lo general paga tributo a otra manía, insólita y funesta en la mujer: y es su malhadada afición a leer toda clase de libros, a aprender cosas raras, a estudiar a troche y moche, convirtiéndose en marisabidilla, lo más odioso y antipático del mundo.

La sabiduría rompe las cadenas de la fatalidad y nos deja libres de las atadurillas liliputienses de la costumbre.

Permítame que me tome la libertad de preguntarle cómo se las arregla para vivir sin libros.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

And once, Hareton, I came upon a secret stock in your room... some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry... But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.  You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

No books!' I exclaimed. 'How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!

All true histories contain instruction;

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Para viajar lejos, no hay mejor nave que un libro.

Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

To pity those that know her not Is helped by the regret That those who know her, know her less The nearer her they get.

I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...