Quotes About Knowledge

La prétendue baguette des fées était moins puissante que ne l'est aujourd'hui la science des hommes.

suffers fools

Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Qué demonios importa si uno es culto, está al día o ha leído todos los libros? Lo que importa es cómo se anda, cómo se ve, cómo se actúa, después de leer. Si la calle y las nubes y la existencia de los otros tienen algo que decirnos. Si leer nos hace, físicamente, más reales.

Pero leer es otra forma de embarcarse: lo que pasa y corre es nuestra vida, sobre un texto inmóvil. El

Hoy, es un lujo leer a Sócrates, no por el costo de los libros, sino del tiempo escaso.

I know all about you, Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. You do? How could you? Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you. He looked sideways at me. Do you know much about me?

Ogres weren't dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge.

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?

In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.

Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

Who would set a limit to the mind? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

All truths are easy to understand once you find them, the point is to discover them

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.