Quotes About Knowledge

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Foreigners seldom have enough local knowledge to understand how to construct durable states. When their efforts at institution building are halfhearted and underresourced, they often do more damage than good.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an expert on the period. He was not, but he knew enough about it to be able to advise her roughly, and was far too flattered by the earnest way in which she listened to gather that actually she knew a great deal more about the points in question than he did.

PC advocates deny the existence of objective knowledge and morality, and thus see no point in employing moral suasion and logical argument to convince their fellow citizens that their viewpoint is correct. Their only means available is therefore using the instruments of political power, such as coercion, intimidation, marginalization, and name-calling. To put it philosophically: Ideas are not the power by which to change the world, but rather, the world's ideas are changed by power.

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

SHOW ME;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS NOT, that he KNOWS NOT; He is a novitiate, Inspire him: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS . . . . that he KNOWS NOT; He is a student, Teach him. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS that he KNOWS, and KNOWS that he KNOWS that he KNOWS; He is a MASTER, FOLLOW Him! f.m.Faber Jr

God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Es justo esperar de nuestra época muchas más grandes cosas que las de épocas pasadas, pues el mundo, al ser más viejo es más rico en infinidad de observaciones y experiencias

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

También veremos si los jueces, retóricas e invocaciones aparte, son capaces de resistir. En ellos, en su talante, descansa mucho de lo que en el futuro veremos desarrollarse. Como alguna vez dijo para sí y su integración jurisdiccional un ministro ahora en retiro, ya veremos de qué están hechos nuestros jueces. Bíblicamente hablando, por sus frutos los conoceremos.

Quién se preocupa realmente por lo que les enseñan a nuestros hijos en la escuela?

Reading 'more' is always a good thing, but not the solution.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.