Quotes About Knowledge

Our lives change in two ways: through the people we meet and the books we read

People without good education are also more prone to believe in conspiracy theories.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it can not be destroyed.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

We'd mistaken our few experiences swimming in the river for the wisdom of actually knowing a place. How could we have been so wrong?

At no other time in history has it been possible to think that you are a local but to be so lacking the deep knowledge of a place that keeps you safe during rare events. We moderns struggle to grasp this gap in our knowledge for many reasons. For starters, we no longer rely on tight-knit communities or a deep understanding of local terrain like humans did until recently.

Every time that you read a book, it is like depositing money in the bank. You spend every weekend reading a pile of books this big, I swear to you that you are going to be a rich man.

People became free in literature first. It was through books that new ideas entered the general population.

Biblical scholars, for example, are almost solely devoted to maintaining the cultural significance of the Bible not because any knowledge it provides is relevant to our world but because of the self-serving drive to protect the power position of the biblical studies profession.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

Wenn die Philosophie ihr Grau in Grau malt, dann ist eine Gestalt des Lebens alt geworden, und mit Grau in Grau läßt sie sich nicht verjüngen, sondern nur erkennen; die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung ihren Flug.

Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen

Ce que nous enseignent l'expérience et l'histoire, c'est que ni le peuple ni les gouvernements n'ont jamais appris quoi que ce soit par l'histoire, ou agi selon des principes déduits de l'histoire.

Ilmu pengetahuan tidak bisa mengungkap seluruh misteri dunia ini. Tetapi dunia memberi jawaban dengan caranya sendiri.

When philosophy paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with twilight closing in.

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

On our journey, we are learning to imitate Jesus. We are learning to love as He loved. And as we keep loving, He will keep putting in front of us those who desperately need His love. Then we will find the following to be true of us: "The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:8 NLT).

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

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