Quotes About Knowledge

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ALBERT EINSTEIN

If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.

For millions of years, human beings have conquered their ignorance by dividing the labor of discovery

Qué diera hoy por saber esto ayer!

hijo de gato caza ratones...siempre y cuando sepa que es hijo de gato.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Can't none of this be new to you.

in order to become a master of the unorthodox, you need to know the orthodox very well.

nothing good will ever come from people who are more familiar with the dust of the library than with the light of the sun.

C'è sempre qualcos'altro da leggere. - Celestine Clochette -

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

The man who found in his heart this heretical and dangerous thought, which speaks of the futility of one's own being-in-time, finds himself, however, faced with another (final) dilemma: whether to accept the transitoriness of this being-in-time for the sake of that precious and expensively acquired knowledge (which excludes any morality and therefore is made in absolute freedom), or, for the sake of that same knowledge, to yield oneself to the embrace of nothingness.

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.

Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses!

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.