Quotes About Knowledge

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.

the amateur historian's next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

we all still bask in the glow and the warmth of Mr. Franklin's rising sun." Sounds good.

the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.

The things you want her to let you in on might be things you're happier not knowing.

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

History, memory – that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death.' For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick.

The people who come to evening classes are only ostensibly after culture. Their great need, their hunger, is for good sense, clarity, truth – even an atom of it. People are dying – it is no metaphor – for lack of something real to carry home when day is done.

what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

Spremnost da se odgovori na sva pitanja nepogrešivi je znak gluposti.

For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn't believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

Reality instructors. They want to teach you – to punish you with – the lessons of the Real.