Quotes About Knowledge

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

On George Eliot's narrative strategy) It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

I think I added pepper too early in the cooking – did you know it loses its potency?

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.

solo la non conoscenza del futuro ci rende sopportabile il presente. Mi sono sempre stupito e continuo a stupirmi immensamente che gli uomini siano tanto smaniosi di conoscere il futuro. Sembra quasi che preferiscano l'infelicità alla felicità.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I have wound my way through a jungle of lies and am on the track of only half the truth. In China, nobody gets to know the whole truth.

The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.