Quotes About Knowledge

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.

while the scholar seeks, the artist finds;

Leo demasiado; todo eso fermenta.

Cree a aquellos que buscan la verdad; duda de los que la han encontrado

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent ; doutez de tout.

A mon âge, on ne voyage plus sans bibliothèque.

a conocer las conclusiones antes

The beauty of a Jewish education is that you learn how to argue.

We take girls and send them to schools. It is good of us, because girls are not supposed to know anything much, and in many other societies girls are not sent to school or taught to read and write. In our society, such a generous one to women, girls are taught some facts, but not inquiry or the passion of knowing. Girls are taught in order to make them compliant: intellectual adventurousness is drained, punished, ridiculed out of girls.

It's not as if there's an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We know less about time than about anything else

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the link that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

The only function of consciousness is to produce fabrications. True knowledge is achieved in the heart and in the soul.

Você olha um relógio. Ele funciona, mostra as horas. Você tenta compreender como ele funciona e o desmonta. Ele não anda mais. E no entanto essa é a única maneira de compreender...

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. Is is a never failing spring in the desert

That was the second thing—understanding what Mrs. Granger had said.

Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models.

The DRY principle tells us to keep the low-level knowledge in the code, where it belongs, and reserve the comments for other, high-level explanations.