Quotes About Knowledge

Everyone is wrong about the future. Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

The novel is the fruit of a human illusion. The illusion of the power to understand others. But what do we know of one another?

People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror, and nothing but horror.

When we study, discuss, analyze a reality, we analyze it as it appears in our mind, in our memory. We know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when it's happening, when it is. The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negative of forgetting. Remembering is a form of forgetting. [...] We die without knowing what we have lived.

DehÅŸet bir ÅŸoktur, mutlak bir körleÅŸmenin zaman?. DehÅŸette en ufak güzellik yoktur. Bütün görebildiÄŸimiz bizi bekleyen bir olay?n gelip geçici ?????d?r. Öte yandan, hüzün olacaklar? bildiÄŸimizi varsayan bir tav?rd?r." Varolman?n Dayan?lmaz HafifliÄŸi

En travaux pratiques de physique, n'importe quel collégien peut faire des expériences pour vérifier l'exactitude d'une hypothèse scientifique. Mais l'homme, parce qu'il n'a qu'une seule vie, n'a aucune possibilité de vérifier l'hypothèse par l'expérience de sorte qu'il ne saura jamais s'il a eu tort ou raison d'obéir à son sentiment. (partie I, ch. 16)

whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer! Isn't his I did not know I was a believer! at the very root of his irreparable guilt?

You'll learn either that people aren't human or that you don't know what humans are like

Cum putea s? È™tie? Cum putea s? verifice? În orele de fizic?, orice elev poate s? fac? experienÈ›e spre a verifica exactitatea unei ipoteze È™tiinÈ›ifice. Omul îns?, pentru faptul c? dispune doar de o singur? via??, nu are nicio posibilitate s? verifice ipoteza prin experien??, drept care nu va afla niciodat? dac? a greÈ™it sau dac? a f?cut bine dând ascultare sentimentelor sale.

The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

Životopisci neznají sexuální život svých vlastních manželek, ale myslí si, že vÄ›dí vÅ¡echno o pohlavních tajemstvích Stendhala nebo Faulknera.

You know,' he went on, 'novels are the fruit of the human illusion that we can understand our fellow man. But what do we know about each other?' 'Nothing,' said Bibi. 'True,' said Joujou. The professor of philosophy acquiesced with a nod of the head. 'The only thing we can do,' said Banaka, 'is to give an account of our own selves. Anything else is an abuse of power. Anything else is a lie.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred? In

Nic z dÄ›jinných událostí nelze pÃ…â"¢edpokládat jako obecnÄ› známé, a o dÄ›jích, jež se staly pÃ…â"¢ed pár lety, musím proto vyprávÄ›t, jako by byly staré tisíc let:

the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

Whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool in the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

El ser humano sólo puede estar seguro del momento presente. Pero ¿es realmente asi? ¿Puede de hecho conocer el presente? ¿Es acaso capaz de juzgarlo? Claro que no. Porque ¿Cómo podría comprender el sentido del presente el que no conoce el porvenir? Si no sabemos hacia qué porvenir nos conduce el presente, ¿Cómo podríamos decirnos que ese presente es bueno o malo, que merece nuestra adhesión, nuestra desconfianza o nuestro odio?

Si las personas solo fueran responsables de lo que hacen conscientemente, los idiotas estarían de antemano libres de cualquier culpa. Lo que pasa querido Flajsman, es que las personas tienen la obligación de saber. Las personas son responsables de su ignorancia. La ignorancia es culpable

Osje?aj ljubavi svima nam daje lažnu iluziju poznavanja.

Los mujeriegos épicos, se alejan cada vez más, en su búsqueda del conocimiento, de la belleza femenina convencional, de la que se han hartado rápidamente, y terminan indefectiblemente como coleccionistas de curiosidades