Quotes About Knowledge

No hay mejor fragata que un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas.

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.

I never saw a Moor - I never saw the Sea - Yet know I how the Heather looks And what a Billow be. I never spoke with God Nor visited in Heaven - Yet certain am I of the spot As if the Checks were given -

Pour voyager loin, il n'y a pas de meilleur navire qu'un livre.

But she and Death, acquainted

There is no frigate like a book.

Saber que somos temporalmente eternos es reconfortante, aunque nada más sepamos.

Will there really be a Morning? Is there such a thing as Day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like Water lilies? Has it feathers like a Bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! Oh some Wise Men from the skies! Please to tell a little Pilgrim Where the place called Morning lies!

I'm beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

And the flames are every colour of the rainbow. They can't be, observed Daffy. Well, they are, she said cheekily. Have you been there, that you know so much about it? No, said Daffy, very calm, but I'd wager I know more than you about the chemical processes of combustion. Mary rolled her eyes. Did he hope to dazzle her with syllables?

Brother, there's no end to your knowledge.' 'I'm just old,' Cormac says with a chuckle.

Over a lifetime you packed your brain tight with data, like an overstuffed suitcase, only for it all to fall out in the end.

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.

These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.

I was taught that being a good nurse means knowing when to call a doctor.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance

Experience has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.

A nadie se le obliga a morir más imbécil que cuando nació.

Darrell knew where the teachers lived now, in the building facing south, except those who, like Miss Potts and