Quotes About Knowledge

That is why the truth is in the hands of unofficial folk.

I know little about the women of my own race...

It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original - with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.

a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

No theory adequately covers reality.

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.

The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. There is far too much God talk; the world is sick of it. There is too little awareness, too little love, too little happiness, but let's not use those words either. There's too little dropping of illusions, dropping of errors, dropping of attachments and cruelty, too little awareness. That's what the world is suffering from, not from a lack of religion.

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

Jamás se ha emborrachado nadie a base de comprender intelectualmente la palabra "vino

What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what sincere believers will do because they think they know.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones,' Rex [Browning] says, 'and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.

he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet. [Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis]

How? How did Jutta understand so much more about how the world worked? While he knew so little?

Frau Elena, does a bee know it's going to die if it stings somebody?

Max looks up from his book and says, "Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.

Grandfather, Omeir thinks, already I have seen things I did not know how to dream.

To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up." Who says such things? And still Zeno steals glances: Rex's mouth, his hair, his hands; there is the same pleasure in gazing at this man as in gazing at a fire.

After a while, he is learning, even total darkness is not quite darkness.