Quotes About Knowledge

If you are a guru or an expert, people will know it. If you aren't one, no one is going to believe you. In

La gente confía en ti cuando estás informado, eres competente, piensas en grande y creas situaciones de valor seguro. En resumidas cuentas, cuando haces cosas buenas y las haces bien.

I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.

Of course, I could holler Religious Persecution. Not that it would do any good. But it's something I happen to know quite a bit about, seeing as Religious Persecution was my assignment in Social Studies that time we studied Man's Inhumanity to Man. The idea was to write a two-thousand-word report proving how everybody has been a shit to everybody else through the ages, and where did it ever get them? This is supposed to improve us somehow, I guess.

Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

Žijeme naÅ¡e životy na malém ostr?vku zaslepenosti, bez povÄ›domí o temných oceánech nekone?na okolo nás. NemÄ›li bychom se snažit pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozhlížet. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.

How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of disassociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else. (writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury )

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.