Quotes About Knowledge

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

La vida és ben rara, un arranjament misteriós de lògica despietada per una finalitat fútil. El màxim que se'n pot esperar és un coneixement de tu mateix, que arriba massa tard, i una collita de retrets inextingibles.

Que coisa engraçada é a vida, esse arranjo misterioso de lógica impiedosa e propósito fútil. O máximo que se pode esperar dela é algum conhecimento de si mesmo, que vem tarde demais, uma seara de remorsos inextinguíveis.

I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples.

There are things you find nothing about in books

Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets.

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything

He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge.

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

that glance of insufferable, hopelessly dense sufficiency which nothing but the frequentation of science can give to the dullness of common mortals.

For if ye had been able to see all, No need there were for Mary to give birth;

He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him.

for the future he knows only by guesswork, and that not always; for it is reserved for God alone to know the times and the seasons, and for him there is neither past nor future; all is present.

Shakespeare gathered the fruitage of all who went before him, he has sown the seeds for all who shall ever come after him. He was the great intellectual ocean whose waves touch the continents of all thought.

The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything. This may sound paradoxical, but, nevertheless, experience proves its truth.

If you are not able to procure a library of the great masterpieces, get at least a few. Read them carefully, intelligently and with a view to enlarging your own literary horizon. Remember a good book cannot be read too often, one of a deteriorating influence should not be read at all. In literature, as in all things else, the good alone should prevail.

big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything.

constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub's A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor's The First World War, John Keegan's The First World War, and Malcolm Brown's The Western Front.

The most important "endowment," from our perspective, is a society's learning capacities (which in turn is affected by the knowledge that it has; its knowledge about learning itself; and its knowledge about its own learning capacities)

Es este desdén por la verdad, la ciencia, el conocimiento y la democracia lo que diferencia a Reagan, y otros movimientos conservadores del pasado, de la Administración Trump y otros líderes similares

Reading is experience. A biography of any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in some sense, we are what we read.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.