Quotes About Knowledge

What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It's that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint—a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.

Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won't actually have to face each other.

I know too much and not enough.

There was also something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper, or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.

You will never be lonely with a book at your side

The living have pleasures the dead know nothing of.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero hay muchas cosas viejas que nosotros no sabemos.

Observatory n, A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

We know no more than the ancients; we only know other things, but nothing in which is an assurance of perpetuity, and little that is truly wisdom.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.