Quotes About Knowledge

Quit pretending you know things you don't and start running experiments.

a distinction that philosophers have proposed between "epistemic" and "aleatory" uncertainty.

the more famous an expert was, the less accurate he was.

Epistemic uncertainty is something you don't know but is, at least in theory, knowable.

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are already master of what it contains and that the author has written only so you may prove him wrong!

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Fourteenth-century men seemed to have regarded their doctor in rather the same way as the twentieth-century men are apt to regard their priest, with tolerance for someone who was doing his best and the respect due to a man of learning but also with a nagging and uncomfortable conviction that he was largely irrelevant to the real and urgent problems of their lives.

Ciertamente, el amor es la madre de la sabiduría, pero la pasión lo es de la estupidez.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

You're very old, aren't you?" "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

He's surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I've never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what's worse is that if someone asked both of us, I'm pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.

Je dis : et ton père, tu crois qu'il est le genre à appeler ? Il me dévisage à nouveau longuement. Je suis à nouveau pétrifié par sa ressemblance. Il dit : ça, c'est vous qui savez. Je suis sûr que vous le connaissez beaucoup mieux que moi.

El anciano se llama Linh. Es el único que lo sabe, porque el resto de las personas que lo sabían están muertas.

Ik ben vijftien. Ik heb al honderden boeken gelezen. Ik voel me zwaar van al die boeken, een heerlijke zwaarte. Ik zal mijn leven lang blijven lezen. Ik zal er mijn beroep van maken. Ik word leraar. Een leraar van een bijzondere soort die nooit lesgeeft, die geen leerlingen heeft, maar boeken schrijft over wat hij gelezen heeft, met als doel anderen het verlangen en de behoefte te geven om hem na te volgen.

Don't forget, Brodeck: it's ignorance that always triumphs, not knowledge.

Mon cher et vieux maître Limmat, que faisiez-vous donc là, derrière cette table pareille à celle d'un tribunal ? Vous aussi vous saviez donc ?

el miedo surge cuando descubrimos lo que hasta el día anterior creíamos ignorar.

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Reading is the king of subjects. Math and science, writing and social studies -- they all depend on it. It's the most important thing children learn in school.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.