Quotes About Knowledge

Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was fond of saying that no one really understands the quantum theory. Ironically, although the quantum theory is the most successful theory ever proposed by the human mind

Las raíces de la violencia: la riqueza sin trabajar, el placer sin conciencia, el conocimiento sin carácter, el comercio sin moralidad, la ciencia sin humanidad, el culto sin sacrificio, la política sin principios.

Scientists can now instantly determine how certain parts of the brain are hooked up with other parts.

Mahatma Gandhi escribió: Las raíces de la violencia: la riqueza sin trabajar, el placer sin conciencia, el conocimiento sin carácter, el comercio sin moralidad, la ciencia sin humanidad, el culto sin sacrificio, la política sin principios.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulations, stands mainly in need of freedom.

sin ciencia no hay ciencia ficción.

In many ways, we actually know more about the surface of Mars than the surface of the Earth. About three-quarters of the Earth is covered by the oceans, while Mars has no oceans.

Every few days, Giordano Bruno has his revenge.

Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en un esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha. Y, al apelar a otros títulos, iniciabas una cadena que ya no podía concluir sino con la muerte.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan peligrosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.

You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, "Hey, I love you.

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

There is no truth to find.

The adults can only teach us what they know; they cannot teach us what they don't know. What they know is what they learned in their whole lives; it's what they believed in their whole lives. You can be sure that your parents did the best they could for you at the time. If they didn't do better, it's because they didn't know any better.

I was being selfish. I was afraid for myself, and not even thinking of you." Sitting on the bed, he took his father's hands in his. "I can do as you say—I can rise above fear. I can hear knowledge speaking, and choose to disbelieve it. I can hear the way people spread poison, and choose to ignore it. I'm ready." José looked directly into his teacher's eyes and said, "I'm with you now.

La única forma de almacenar información es por acuerdo.

Humans are born with awareness; we are born to perceive the truth, but we accumulate knowledge, and we learn to deny what we perceive. We practice not being aware, and we master not being aware.

You are the unknowable. You are here just to be in this moment, in this dream. Being has nothing to do with knowledge. It's not about understanding. You don't need to understand. It's not about learning. You are here to unlearn, and that's it, until one day you realize you know nothing.

The Voice of Knowledge by don Miguel Ruiz* Ruiz transforms complex human issues into simple common sense. He tells us that all of our emotional suffering is because we believe in lies — mainly about ourselves.

Right now, you are interpreting what I'm saying according to your personal knowledge. You are rearranging the symbols and transforming them in a way that maintains an equilibrium with everything in your belief system.

I saw humans more clearly. I saw them as exceptional creatures under the tyranny of knowledge, helpless to change their circumstances. The human animal is helpless, that is, until the mind decides to change and until knowledge has lost its supreme authority.

Don't believe everything you learned! Not believing yourself is a huge advantage, because most of what you learned is not the truth. Everything you know, your whole reality, is nothing but symbols. But you are not that bunch of symbols that talk in your head. You know that, and that's why you are skeptical and you don't believe yourself.