Quotes About Knowledge

La sabiduría reside en saber cuándo hay que recordar y cuándo olvidar.

they have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost— yet search is there image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature--and struggle never to let him discover otherwise. It is important here to remember that the only direct, introspective knowledge of man anyone possesses is of himself.

Una mente racional no trabaja bajo coerción; no subordina su comprensión de la realidad a las órdenes, las directivas o los controles de nadie; no sacrifica su conocimiento, su visión de la verdad, a las opiniones, las amenazas, los deseos, los planes o el «bienestar» de nadie.

I don't blame our metallurgical department!" he said angrily. "I know that results of this kind are not a matter of any predictable time. But the public won't understand it. What, then, should we sacrifice? An excellent piece of smelting—or the last center of science left on earth, and the whole future of human knowledge? That is the alternative." She sat, her head down. After

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the deadliest and most crucial: the alleged dichotomy of science and ethics. It is the doctrine that man's science and ethics - or his knowledge and values, or his body and soul - are two separate, antagonistic aspects of his existence, and that man is caught between them, as a precarious, permanent traitor to their conflicting demands.

The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

It is important here to remember that the only direct, introspective knowledge of man anyone possesses is of himself.

Dios es aquello que la mente humana no puede concebir, afirman, y luego os piden que consideréis tal cosa como conocimiento; Dios no es hombre, el cielo no es tierra, el alma no es el cuerpo, la virtud no es provecho, A no es A, la percepción no es sensorial, el conocimiento no es rázon. Sus definiciones no constituyen el acto de definir, sino el de borrar.

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, how unfortunate it is if you allow yourself to be disturbed by political matters, which you have always considered unworthy of your attention and knowledge. You see, it is not Mr. Mouch's function to ask permissions.

Para vivir, el hombre ha de considerar tres cosas como los valores supremos gobernantes de su vida: Razón, Propósito, Estima propia. La Razón como única herramienta de conocimiento, el Propósito como su elección de felicidad que con aquella herramienta ha de poder conseguir; la estima propia como inviolable certidumbre de que su mente es competente para pensar y su persona digna de la felicidad, lo que significa digna de vivir.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially. Except when one doesn't know that sacrilege has been committed. Because one doesn't know God.

Più sappiamo, più impariamo che non sappiamo niente.

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice.

Cuál es entonces su norma de conocimiento y de verdad? Lo que otros crean, responden. enseñan que no hay conocimiento, sino fe.

La fe en lo sobrenatural empieza como fe en la superioridad ajena. Su rendición cobró la forma de un asentimiento que le obligaba a ocultar su falta de comprensión, a pensar que otros poseen cierto misterioso conocimiento de que él esta privado, que la realidad es aquello que los quieren que sea, gracias a un medio que a él siempre le será negado.

Un inventor es un hombre que pregunta ¿por qué? al universo y no permite que nada se interponga entre la respuesta y su mente.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

El propósito de la filosofía no es el de buscar el conocimiento, sino el de demostrar que dicho conocimiento es imposible para el hombre.

He does not regard "because I want it" or "because I feel like it" as a sufficient cause and validation of his actions. He chooses and/or identifies his desires by a process of reason, and he does not act to achieve a desire until and unless he is able rationally to validate it in the full context of his knowledge and of his other values and goals. He does not act until he is able to say: "I want it because it is right.

El hombre recibe un cuerpo, pero no el sustento para el mismo. Se le otorga una mente, pero no el contenido de la misma. Para vivir ha de actuar, pero antes de poder hacerlo debe saber la naturaleza y el proposito de su acción. No puede conseguir alimento sin conocimiento del mismo ni del modo de obtenerlo.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements." "The more we know, the more we learn that we know nothing.

No saben por que están aquí. En cambio, nosotros lo sabemos. No saben quién es su prisionero. Nosotros, sí. No saben por qué sus jefes quieren que lo vigilen. En cambio, nosotros sabemos muy bien por qué queremos sacarlo de aquí. No se dan cuenta del objetivo de su lucha, pero nosotros sí sabemos cuál es el de la nuestra. Si mueren no sabrán por qué. nosotros sí lo sabemos.

it was the security of being first, with full sight and full knowledge of one's course—not the blind sense of being pulled into the unknown by some unknown power ahead. It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.