Quotes About Knowledge

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have not yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us.

Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went about making himself indispensable.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Have you ever felt that, Ts'an Tsan?—a hunger for knowledge so desperate you begrudge food and sleep, you cannot wait for another dawn to get on to more and more?" Damon nodded. "Yes. Well, I had that fever. I had to know: it was more important than life." From

You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

Taking our knowledge to heart and really living it, however, can be difficult, as Seneca illustrated with a literally colourful analogy: 'Just as some dyes are readily absorbed by the wool, others only after repeated soaking and simmering, so there are some studies that show up well in our minds as soon as we have learned them; this one, though, must permeate us thoroughly. It must soak in, giving not just a tinge of color but a real deep dye, or it cannot deliver on any of its promises.

Everybody knew everything now. Or did everybody know nothing? Nobody knew anything... Nobody could know everything.

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

Anyone who worked with him will recall the moment when his face softened into a knowing smile. It was the moment he thought he had the answer. That smile was the same smile he wore when he wrote an opinion that wrote itself. He loved the truth, and his smile betrayed the peace and joy he found in its pursuit.

A Talmudic maxim instructs with respect to the Scripture: "Turn it over, and turn it over, for all is therein.

Just as no particular branch of knowledge is self-sufficing so all branches together are not self-sufficing without the queen of knowledge, philosophy, nor the whole of human knowledge without the wisdom springing from the divine science itself, theology.

books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.

Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.