Quotes About Knowledge

Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.

Of India he (Sir John Strachey) had pronounced (and in reissues of "India: Its Administration and Progress" continually repeated) that nothing by that name existed. "This is the first and most essential fact about India that can be learned.

For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law?

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

He's smarter than all of us put together, but sometimes he talks like he's got a fifty-word vocabulary." A soft snort. "It's not like it'd kill him to use an adverb once in a while.

people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley

people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy.

THE HUMAN BRAIN WERE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND IT, WE WOULD BE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULDN'T. —Emerson M. Pugh

In its own way, though, that nihilism itself can be comforting, and this is another place where I quibble. If it's all futile, we're excused from trying. And not trying is so much easier than trying-and-failing. It's soothing to have an excuse for hopelessness. And we do have a cultural bias toward believing that the most cynical response to any situation is the wisest and most knowledgable one.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Life of the known and knowledgeable. Elevator. People coming in and coming out. One stays. Lights turn on and off.

No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.

I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .

Gold,silver,gems, fine raiment , a marble palace, well-cultivated fields, paintings, a splendidly caparisoned horse such things as these give one nothing more than a mute and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they converse with us, they give us good advice; they become living and lively companions to us .

Ya?lanarak de?il ya?ayarak tecrübe kazan?l?r; zaman insanlar? de?il, armutlar? olgunla?t?r?r

Ah efendim, dedi, bizi bizden daha iyi biliyorlar; Mesnevi'yi de, Rubiyat'? da, Gazali'yi de, Farabi'yi de bizden daha çok okuyorlar; bizden daha çok takdir ediyorlar; bizim bizden daha büyük dü?man?m?z yoktur efendim, yoktur.

Zengin bir hayal içinde meçhul, daima malumun en korkunç rakibidir.

Modern ilmin ?üpheci ve kontrolcü zekas?, inanmad?klar?ndan evvel ?imdiye kadar inand?klar?ndan ?üphe etseydi, yirmi senede bir bilgisinin prensiplerini altüst eden ink?laplar kar??s?nda ?a??rmazd?.

?nsanlar?n hayat?nda s?k s?k olan bir ?eye inanmamak, inanmak de?il, inanmamak, izahtan aciz kald???m?z her hadiseyi hurafe sayan bir hurafedir.