Quotes About Knowledge

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.

Every truth that we may think complete will prove itself untruth at the moment of shipwreck.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950).

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Ma dove troverò mai il tempo per non leggere tante cose?

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, anche i nani hanno l'aspetto di giganti.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Hence insight may be regarded as the core of social knowledge. It is arrived at by being on the inside of the phenomenon to. be observed, or, as Charles H. Cooley put it, by sympathetic introspection. It is the participation in an activity that generates interest, purpose, point of view, value, meaning, and intelligibility, as well as bias.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Karl Pillemer

We can know more than we can tell.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others