Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
Bram StokerOnly through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
Friedrich SchillerA visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
Karen BlixenTags: wisdom friendship knowledge society people curiosity
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
Neal StephensonTags: knowledge
[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.
Terry EagletonYou read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take that seriously, but you should also read and draw because really good books and cartoons give you a boner."
I was shocked:
"Did you just say books should give me a boner?"
"Yes, I did."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah... don't you get excited about books?"
"I don't think that you're supposed to get THAT excited about books."
"You should get a boner! You have to get a boner!" Gordy shouted. "Come on!"
We ran into the Reardan High School Library.
"Look at all these books," he said.
"There aren't that many," I said. It was a small library in a small high school in a small town.
"There are three thousand four hundred and twelve books here," Gordy said. "I know that because I counted them."
"Okay, now you're officially a freak," I said.
"Yes, it's a small library. It's a tiny one. But if you read one of these books a day, it would still take you almost ten years to finish."
"What's your point?"
"The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know."
Wow. That was a huge idea.
Any town, even one as small as Reardan, was a place of mystery. And that meant Wellpinit, the smaller, Indian town, was also a place of mystery.
"Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes," Gordy said. "Now doesn't that give you a boner?"
"I am rock hard," I said.
Tags: reading books knowledge funny boners
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.
Lucy GrealyTags: truth knowledge memory enlightenment
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge.
Tags: certainty knowledge ignorance epistemology
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
Kedar JoshiTags: knowledge epistemology discovery
Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.
Kenneth A. BruffeeTags: knowledge epistemology
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