Quotes About Knowledge

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.

mas pode entrar no ânimo do governo eliminar a loucura? Não. E se o governo não a pode eliminar, está ao menos apto para discriminá-la, reconhecê-la? Também não; é matéria de Ciência.

Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas.

He wanted to explain philosophy to me; I asked him not to.

A nação não sabe ler. Há só 30% dos indivíduos residentes neste país que podem ler; desses uns 9% não leem letra de mão. 70% jazem em profunda ignorância

Doutor em matérias escuras e complicadas, sabia muito bem o valor dos números, a significação dos gestos não só visíveis como invisíveis, a estatística da eternidade, a divisibilidade do infinito.

Santa curiosidade! Tu não és só a alma da civilização, és também o pomo da concórdia, fruta divina, de outro sabor que não aquele pomo da mitologia.

Greeks, sub-Greeks, anti-Greeks, the whole long series of men bent over the well, to see the truth come out, which was not there.

O clássico é inevitável, algo que não podemos conhecer apenas de ouvir falar. Mesmo quando não nos identificamos com ele, a experiência de conhecê-lo é válida e serve como referencial até mesmo para o posicionamento contrário.

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.

We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.