Quotes About Knowledge

Quem, de três milênios, não é capaz de se dar conta, vive na ignorância, na sombra, à mercê dos dias, do tempo.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Mit einem Worte: durch die Wissenschaftslehre kommt der Geist des Menschen zu sich selbst, und ruht von nun an auf sich selbst, ohne fremde Hülfe, und wird seiner selbst durchaus mächtig, wie der Tänzer seiner Füße, oder der Fechter seiner Hände.

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year.

This gap in understanding between books and screens is big enough that in elementary-school children, it's the equivalent of two-thirds of a year's growth in reading comprehension.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Ah, o que eu sei, toda a gente o pode saber! Mas o meu coração só a mim pertence…

There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

Experience is only half of experience

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.