Quotes About Knowledge

Philosophy is for the few.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

I can't stand when girls come to me and say they want to be a model, but they can't tell me who the top three photographers are in the world. They can't tell me who the top five biggest models are or name three cosmetics companies. They can't even name the top fashion magazines! You have to get it together and know your stuff.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

I have a photographic memory.

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.

This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?