Quotes About Knowledge

Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Jesus said the truth will set us free. What he didn't mention was how nothing is quite as elusive as getting to that truth.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that humans could become like gods.

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

Evolution stops at the neck.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

That's the problem: Most people don't know where money comes from, nor how it's created." Which, he believes, is the reason why our economy today resembles a chain letter based on the fiction of an infinite number of recipients, instead of a terrarium—such as Terra, the Earth itself.

In claiming to have exhausted the dialectically structured categorial realm, Hegel claims to have completed philosophy. In fact, however, he has completed at best only first philosophy; his system represents at most the highest theoretical knowledge, that which grounds further inquiry. Grounding such inquiry is however quite different from completing it. In complete metaphysics, Hegel provides philosophical anthropology with the point from which it can begin.

Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police." A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.

We know that there are no self-evident truths.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

Elephants have a theory of mind—they can think into the head of another elephant and infer their knowledge of the world, including errors and omissions of knowledge. That puts them above all but a handful of species—a few primates, some very smart birds and cetaceans.

And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.

So the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

It was better to live; better to carry a memory of a memory, than suffer the vast burden of knowing. He was not meant to think like a god.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Congress always gets new blood. You have to balance that with people who know what's going on. It's no different than a business, it's no different than your personal life.