Quotes About Knowledge

Throughout history libraries have testified to what a civilization meant, or wanted to believe it meant.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

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The thing all mental representations have in common is that they make it possible to

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

I knew everything, so hard have I tried to read in my streams of tears.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.

Los libros no valen más que en la medida en que nos enseñan a amar

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

La parte difficile, in una discussione, non è difendere la propria opinione, quanto conoscerla.

Gene de ufak tefek üstünlüklerim vard?r... Ço?u kad?nlardan daha fazla kitap okurum... Birçok güzel ?iiri ezbere bilirim... Çiçek yeti?tirmesini bilirim... ?yi giyinirim... Bir de sizi severim, evet beyefendi, siz belki de inanmazs?n?z, ama çok severim sizi.

Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation he might not have observed the effect of the hyssop mould. 'Fortune,' remarked Pasteur, 'favors the prepared mind.

Les vraies universités ne sont pas celles que nous avons construites. C'est facile à dire une fois qu'on le sait. Les vraies universités subvertissent, elles corrompent, ce sont des institutions dangereuses et, qui plus est, elles peuvent être très coûteuses. Et pourtant, il y a un danger - et un coût - bien plus grand à créer une société dans laquelle personne ne sait ce que signifie être réellement libre.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

In the past Terra had been racked by wars of religion, one fanatically held opinion opposed to another. There was no righteousness in such struggles, only fatal ends. The Reds had no right to this new knowledge—but neither did they. It must be locked against the meddling of fools and zealots.

Într-adev?r, toÈ›i oamenii luau lumea în serios, convinÈ™i de realitatea ei. ?i numai el È™tia cât de puÈ›in ajunge pentru a face universul lor de nerecunoscut.

I've got no education.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.

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