Quotes About Knowledge

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

It is not new nor disastrous that few people read classics. It is new that so many people misread them.

Esta sera mi venganza: Que un dia llegue a tus manos el libro de un poeta famoso y leas estas lineas que el autor escribio para ti y tu no lo sepas!

El conocimiento nos hace responsables

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

Thus for Haeckel, to know is not to conceptualize but to see. What nature is, is visible on its surface.

It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Der Mensch der keine Zeit hat, und das ist eines unserer Kennzeichen, kann schwerlich Glück haben. Notwendig verschliessen sich ihm grosse Quellen und Mächte wie die Muse, des Glaubens, der Schönheit in Kunst und Natur. Damit entgeht ihm die Krönung, der Segen der Arbeit, der in Nicht-Arbeit, und die Ergänzung, der Sinn des Wissens, der im Nicht-Wissen liegt.

Die Blindheit wächst mit der Aufklärung; der Mensch bewegt sich in einem Irrgarten von Licht. Er kennt die Macht der Finsternis nicht mehr. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2.

Heutzutage trifft man gewöhnlich Leute, in denen der Typus vorwiegt, dem man anmerkt, dass er nur ein Buch gelesen hat.

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

The suspicion that there are invisible things, things that seldom appear or that are only shown to the chosen ones, had to be preceded by the knowledge of the visible things, that is, of experience. This provides the grip.

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

The searching human mind is not satisfied merely to discover facts. We also want to know how things happen and why.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

La primera pareja humana, creada en un jardín el sexto día, tuvo por encima de ella la primera noche inconmensurable. Sin saberlo elllos, despuntó en sus cuerpos el apetito, la sed, el entusiasmo y el soeño. (...) no sabian si regresaría el sol, de modo que se abrazaron. Las bocas se vieron juntas e inventaron el beso, el primer fruto del conocimiento.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

Les livres gardent l'empreinte d'une personne plus que les vêtements et les chaussures.