Quotes About Knowledge

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Mr Pugh: Pigs can't read, my dear. Mrs Pugh: I know one who can.

The teacher's job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features of effective learning environments are that they create student engagement and allow teachers, learners, and their peers to ensure that the learning is proceeding in the intended direction. The only way we can do this is through assessment. That is why assessment is, indeed, the bridge between teaching and learning.

Most of what our students need to know hasn't been discovered or invented yet. "Learning how to learn" used to be an optional extra in education; today, it's a survival skill.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.†

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

Observations always involve theory.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

Collections of gnomes, adages, sayings, and parables have been made from times immemorial in all countries and in all languages possessing some kind of literature.

There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.

No one is entitled to the truth.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

And in the end, after he broke up with me and I was sad and mental, I came to the Vineyard and one day I thought: Eff you, Mr. Isaac. I'm not so very ignorant. I just know stuff about stuff that you dismiss as unimportant and useless. Does that make sense?

I own a well-used library card and not much else

I own a well-used library card and not much else pg.10

O não-saber é o fundamento de tudo, ele cria o todo através de um acto que repete a cada instante, produz este mundo e qualquer outro, uma vez que está sempre a tomar como real aquilo que o não é. O não-saber é o gigantesco equívoco que serve de base a todas as nossas verdades, o não-saber é mais antigo e mais poderoso do que todos os deuses juntos.

Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.