Quotes About Knowledge

There is no FRIEND as LOYAL as a BOOK!

There is no friend as long as a book

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist he is. If he can show me how to operate on a heart so that I can cure a brother, or cure someone else, I don't give a damn what the man thinks; he has taught me something. And that is valuable to me. And that is valuable to others and man as a whole.

My six words of advice to writers are: Read, read, read, write, write, write.

You are aware of the result, not the process.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

Wisdom is the warrior's greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it. Wisdom is not the result of having learned enough; it comes when you know there is never enough learning.

It's not our job to be liked(teachers), I reminded her. Its our job to help them be smart(students). Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

Nagyon kézre állt, és azóta is nagyon vonzónak tartom Eco gondolkodásának a módját: a lehetÅ' legtöbb tudással a kétely állapotában lenni.

a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.

Trust and truth are intimate companions, but we must also acknowledge that there are many kinds of truth. What are the useful truths, for us as individuals and as couples, in light of the choices we are likely to make? Some kinds of knowledge bring clarity; others just give us visions to torture ourselves with.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

he was blindly ignorant of history and therefore did not fear his role in it

Another important statement

When you have an interior life, it certainly doesn't matter what side of the prison fence you're on. . . I've already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know everything. There is no new information to trouble me. One way or another, I already know everything. And yet, I find this life beautiful and rich in meaning. At every moment.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Ei ÅŸi?, citat din d. Nae Ionescu

Det er ikke sikkert at alkohol dreper alle sykdomsbasiller. Når det gjelder neshorneri, vet man ikke noe foreløbig.

PUPIL: I can count to . . . to infinity. PROFESSOR: That's not possible, miss. PUPIL: Well then, let's say to sixteen. PROFESSOR: That is enough. One must know one's limits. Count

Il sera une page dans un livre de dix mille pages que l'on mettra dans une bibliothèque qui aura un million de livres, une bibliothèque parmi un million de bibliothèques.

The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.