Quotes About Knowledge

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

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She realized uneasily that she hadn't really known as much as she should have about T.J., but she knew everything about Sean. She knew his strengths and weaknesses. He had never lied to her. When she first saw Sean a month ago, she thought he'd reappeared to screw up her life. She'd literally wanted to rearrange his face. Now, she ran into his arms for comfort and support. Her best friend. A man she knew she could trust.

One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.

Biblically, Faulkner. We know each other biblically.

Where do you learn this stuff?" "Don't you ever get bored?" Cassidy asked. "Yeah, but I don't Google 'German insults.'" "Why not? It's fascinating.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child forever," said Cicero.

faith that's primarily intellectual—that is, a matter of mastering information—is deceptively fragile.

And they're doing this without the knowledge or informed permission of the people whose lives they have colonized—and who are at present without means to escape the surveillance capitalists' web.

A person cut off from history is a person who is almost powerless against power.

Santo Tomás de Aquino lo explicaba con este ejemplo: «saber que alguien viene no es saber que Pedro viene aunque sea Pedro el que viene». A través de la oración y la contemplación podemos, a partir de esta intuición, identificar a quien ahora solo vislumbramos. Por ejemplo, el anhelo de sentido y verdad que todos compartimos es, según David Bentley Hart, «simplemente una manifestación de la estructura metafísica de la realidad».

The truth has power to end every tyranny.

People with healthy well-developed egos, especially those that are well-read, sometimes are the toughest for me to communicate with. It's because you are so smart that you will have some difficulty unlearning the things you must let go of before you'll be able to truly hear what I'm saying.

I knew all the books in the house. I knew their shapes and smells. I knew what pages would open if I held them with the spine on the ground and let the sides drop. I knew all the books but I couldn't remember the name of the one on my head.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a polymath and one of the first directors of the library