Quotes About Knowledge

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Demersul suprem al ratiunii este sa afle ca exista o infinitate de lucruri care o depasesc. Si e o ratiune slaba daca nu ajunge pana acolo.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Molto più importante di quello che sappiamo o non sappiamo è quello che non vogliamo sapere.

Lack of self-awareness renders us transparent. A soul that knows itself is opaque; like Adam after he ate from the tree of knowledge it uses words as fig leaves to cover its nakedness and shame.

There is thus an illiterate air about the most literate true believer. He seems to use words as if he were ignorant of their true meaning. Hence, too, his taste for quibbling, hair-splitting and scholastic tortuousness.

Education does not educate and gentle the heart.

Knowledge enlightens.

He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;

I thought in over a thousand years I'd seen all there was to see.

Wilson argues that knowledge is gained and science progresses through a process of conflict and resolution.

One of the many consequences of the exponential power-versus-time curve in computing, and the corresponding pace of software development, is that 50% of what one knows becomes obsolete over every 18 months.

Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.

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It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

Comme ils ne supportent pas l'ignorance, les hommes créent des savoirs. Ils inventent des myths, ils inventent des dieux, ils inventent un dieu, ils inventent des sciences. Les dieux changent, se succèdent, meurent, les modèles cosmolgiques également, et ne persiste qu'une ambiance, celle d'expliquer.

Moi, je n'ai pas peur, Momo. Je sais ce qu'il y a dans mon Coran.

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