Quotes About Knowledge

Nic nie pozostaje ukryte na zawsze.

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

The word 'philosophy' carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

I cannot climb out onto the nature of your mind. So how then do I know anything about your mental life? How do I know, for instance, that you see the colour blue the way that I do? Might it be that some of us feel pain more, but make less fuss about it, or that others feel pain less, but make more fuss?

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Why should I waste my time going to college and teaching those goddam professors what I know?

The central argument of structuralism is in essence a restatement of the discredited argument of linguistic positivism that language is the only reality since knowledge can only be expressed and communicated in linguistic form.

The power of science comes from being able to say something, without having to say everything.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

I just want to keep learning.

He hadn't played, so if there really was some kind of mystical knowledge you gained from playing, he wouldn't know. Usually he would back down.

This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain one's life, such that one can feel at home in the world. Love can never count on requital or justice- and it is perhaps most genuinely love if it doesn't.

Wisdom is the love of all loves, the water of all fountains, and the memory of all peoples.

Steal from the best, and call it research!

I've never been good at puzzles. When you wear a suit of armour that can punch holes through the world, mostly you don't have to be. Other people will normally fall all over themselves to tell you everything you need to know. The Somnambulist started to snore quietly. Walker

Every wall was covered with shelves, packed tightly with books on every subject under the sun, and a few best unmentioned in polite company.

If you want to know the people around you," Stalin said, "find out what they read.

He did not possess literary talents himself but in terms of his reading alone, he was an intellectual, despite being the son of a cobbler and a washerwoman.

Historians are bad prophets but good at prophesying the future when they already know what happened.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.