Knowledge Of The World Quotes - Page 3

• Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

  Italo Calvino

  Mean, World, Dissolving

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

  Pope Francis

  Needs, World, Nonsense

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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• Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Learning

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, Loss

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Understanding, Mind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.175, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Men, World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.88, Macmillan

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• To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

  George Boole

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.3

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• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pride, Animal

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

  Richard Halliburton

  Vagabonds, World, Life Is

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• There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, World, Increasing Knowledge

  Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

  T. H. White

  Hate, Years, Law

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• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

  Italo Calvino

  World, Concern, Attraction And Repulsion

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Knowledge, Heart, World

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• I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.

  Tom Hardy

  Dog, World, My Dog

  "Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger’s Joker, Bane’s Costume, STAR TREK and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  School, Boys, Years

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.138

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• How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Heart, World

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• It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Believe, Giving, Humanity

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• [M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.

  Francisco Varela

  People, Everyday, World

  "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.

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• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Use, World, Want

  Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin (1986). “Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy”, p.6, The Majority Press

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• Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Mind

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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