Quotes About Knowledge

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it.

Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

La verità è figlia del tempo e non dell'autorità.

Chi non conosce la verità è soltanto uno sciocco; ma chi, conoscendola, la chiama bugia, è un malfattore!

Singer: It may be a mistake to mix different wines, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

No temas preguntar, compañero! No te dejes convencer! ¡Compruébalo tu mismo! Lo que no sabes por ti, no lo sabes

Una delle principali cause della miseria delle scienze sta, molto spesso, nella loro presunzione di essere ricche. Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

La verità è figlia del tempo e non dell'autorità.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

People who understand everything get no stories.

Hvale nam život velikana duha Što žive, prazna stomaka, rad znanja U kolibi gde pacov miša ganja - Za takve gatke ja baš nemam sluha! Nek živi skromno kome je to san! Dojadiše mi (me? nama) te pri?e. Od Vavilona dovde, gde je pti?e Što bi tu hranu podnelo i dan? Šta tu sloboda vredi? Nisam slep: U blagostanju tek život je lep.

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.