Quotes About Knowledge

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

But all I know – the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself – these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

De tudod, az a helyzet, hogy a tudás olyan végtelen… és minél többet tud az ember, annál több tudnivalóról szerez tudomást, ami már éppen csak hogy karnyújtásnyira van és ez így megy folyvást.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

Remarkable that a person can comprehend so little and yet live in such a complex civilization.

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two idea--that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

Sie dachte, ich wüsste viel, weil ich andere Dinge wusste als sie...

The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men.

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her….

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby

a man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

E remarcabil c? o fiin?? uman? poate s? înÈ›eleag? atît de puÈ›in, deÈ™i tr?ieÈ™te într-o civilizaÈ›ie atît de complex?.

Either there is a teacher now teaching upon earth, guaranteed by Christ as the apostles were, or there is no possibility of knowing the truth which He saw to be so essential.

she was not against having a little fun. After all, she had been to Milwaukee, and knew the score.

people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the American system teaches you to think.

What, then, is the best course for the real experts? To help the public understand how their field works, in particular how science works.

CAUSE AND EFFECT The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine? Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.