Quotes About Knowledge

A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable. By examining future stages in the evolution of language we come to learn what discoveries, changes and social revolutions the language will be capable, some day, of reflecting.

El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios encondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas.

The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and in the next hundred years, his knowledge will be even more advanced. Then he will make use of it.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors. To give

Too much beauty undermines the marriage vows, too much knowledge leads to isolation, and too much wealth produces madness.

Why do children learn about Columbus, the discoverer of America who discovered it only by accident, on his way to India, while there's not one word about the discoverer of the pickle? We could have managed without America, sooner or later America would have discovered itself, but not the pickle, and then there would have been nothing to sit on our plate beside a roast beef sandwich.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had

specjalista to barbarzyÅ"ca, którego ignorancja nie jest wszechstronna

ignoramus et ignorabimus

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. What do we really know about the origin of the Universe? A blank so wide can be filled with myths and legends.

L'uomo è in grado di apprendere poche cose la volta; vediamo soltanto ciò che accade dinanzi a noi, qui e ora; non siamo capaci di figurarci una serie di processi che avvengono simultaneamente, per quanto siano legati o complementari gli uni agli altri. Questo vale anche per fenomeni relativamente semplici. La sorte di un uomo è significativa, quella di cento si può appena afferrare; ma la storia di mille, di un milione, propriamente parlando, non ci dice niente.

The satisfaction with which you parade your proof of the lottery origin of human nature is not pure. It is, besides the joy of knowledge, a pleasure in befouling that which others consider lovely and hold dear.

Science is the part of culture that rubs against the world.

the old doctrine of ignoramus et ignorabimus—"we do not know and will not know.

That is how the dream begins. All around me, something is awaiting my consent, my inner acquiescence, and I know, or rather the knowledge exists, that I must not give way to an unknown temptation, for the more the silence seems to promise, the more terrible the outcome will be. Yet I essentially know no such thing, because I would be afraid if I knew, and I never felt the slightest fear.

Nauka obja?nia ?wiat, ale pogodzi? z nim mo?e jedynie sztuka.

In this way the ocean not only in a certain sense knew the Einstein-Boeve hypothesis, but (unlike us humans) was even able to make use of its consequences.

The shame of a genius may be his intellectual futility, the knowledge of how uncertain is all that he has accomplished. And genius is, above all, constant doubting.

I will put it in another way: if a creation were to take place—which personally I cannot conceive—then the level of knowledge that it would require would be of such an order that there would be no place in it for silly jokes.

Dopóki nie skorzystaÅ'em z Internetu, nie wiedziaÅ'em, ?e na Å›wiecie jest tylu idiotów

They have shown school as a complex game, a battle of opposing interests, where the teacher, representing authority and power, attempts to pack the maximum information into the students' heads, while the students, by nature the weaker side, do their best to avoid that information.

The "well-informed" think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.

Want to hear my favorite definition of a human? A creature who likes to talk most about what he knows least.