Quotes About Knowledge

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Only the educated are free.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

El estudio de la naturaleza no forma jactanciosos artífices de la charlatanería ni ostentadores de la cultura por la que pugna la mayoría, sino espíritus independientes, capaces, orgullosos de sus propios bienes y no de los que surgen de las circunstancias.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts—in brief, peace of mind.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

It is not possible for a man to banish all fear of the essential questions of life unless he understands the nature of the universe and unless he banishes all consideration that the fables told about the universe could be true. Therefore a man cannot enjoy full happiness, untroubled by turmoil, unless he acts to gain knowledge of the nature of things.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Anche per chi abbia già conseguito una compiuta conoscenza, la cosa più importante è proprio l'essere in grado di servirsi delle sue cognizioni con prontezza.

The strong stand taken by the Epicureans against all these tendencies was taken not in the name of science and human knowledge alone but in the name of human happiness, on the reasonable assumption that if men know the true nature of reality they are more likely to be happy than if they do not. Hence the happy and the good life presupposes knowing and knowing how to know.

onde as evidências são conflitantes, a certeza não deve ser alegada.

sem a ciência natural, não é possível alcançar os nossos prazeres imaculados.

Receiving information, however, is not the same as believing it.

He was then exposed, and then he was also arrested, because he was a Jew. But where was he sent to? The people also knew about that.

there was a remarkably strong connection between knowledge about the euthanasia program and knowledge about the mass murder of Jews.

The Colonel's face cleared, 'My dear fellow, of course he should. One cannot write about that which one has never seen.