Quotes About Knowledge

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

Quién no ha tenido que aguantarse alguna vez a un "experto" que se toma muy en serio a sí mismo y piensa que sus conocimientos son la sapiencia encarnada? Una de las características de la inflexibilidad mental es la solemnidad, que se manifiesta, abierta o soterradamente, como una fobia a la alegría.

aquellos que logran transitar el camino de la sabiduría, sea por la vía de la filosofía o por cualquier otro medio, no necesitan de nada más, incluyendo el dinero.

insistirá una y otra vez en que su sabiduría no es otra cosa que la conciencia de sus propios límites.

Una cosa es el egoísmo moral y el engreimiento insoportable del que se la sabe todas, y otra muy distinta, la autoafirmación y el fortalecimiento de si mismo.

desconocidas. Existen mentes que parecen de piedra: inmóviles, monolíticas, duras, impenetrables y rígidas, donde la experiencia y el conocimiento se han solidificado de manera sustancial e irrevocable con el paso de los años. Estas mentes ya están determinadas de una vez por todas, ya no aprenden nada distinto a lo que saben, porque su procesamiento obra por acumulación y no por selección.

No me digas qué es la sabiduría, no me hables de cómo vivir bien: ¡muéstramelo!";

Habrá algo más irracional que buscar la certeza absoluta? Si no dudaras nunca, estarías muy cerca del fundamentalismo ("La base de mis creencias es cierta por definición"), del dogmatismo ("Mi verdad es la única") y del oscurantismo ("El nuevo conocimiento es peligroso"). Vivirías en la zona más tenebrosa de la Edad Media mental. Recuerdo

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

In this place you can become the person you want to be. Anything can be gotten from books. In books there are rooms of gold, in books there is jadelike beauty.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

No one alone can attain truth.