Quotes About Knowledge

Ä°nsan kendi bilgi küresinde olan ÅŸeyden guru duyuyor ama onun bile ötesinde olana ne kadar ba??ml? olduÄŸunu anlamaktan acizdir.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don't know shit.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

For in reality there exists a fundamental identity between the word that, after the promise of the snake, knows good and evil, and the externally communicating word. The knowledge of things resides in name, whereas that of good and evil is, in the profound sense in which Kierkegaard uses the word, "prattle," and knows only one purification and elevation, to which the prattling man, the sinner, was therefore submitted: judgment.

God's linguistic being is the word. All human language is only reflection of the word in name. Name is no closer to the word than knowledge to creation. The infinity of all human language always remains limited and analytical in nature in comparison to the absolutely unlimited and creative infinity of the divine word.

To be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.

Man is the knower in the same language in which God is creator. God created him in his image, he created the knower in the image of the creator.

If you file your waste-paper basket for 50 years, you have a public library.

She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

They only babble who practise not reflection.