Quotes About Knowledge

Frequently, things are seen as 'insurmountable' merely from a lack of know-how.

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Both

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

You never have perfect knowledge in combat, gentlemen. It's what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what's real and what's not, or you can realize the enemy hasn't got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war.

Investigate, record, understand. Intelligence saves your life sooner or later. "Commander

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.

somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.

people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformation. She disdained organized religion. In social situations, she had the strange habit of spouting obscure facts.

who didn't know how to use a shotgun?

investigoogling

need to pull out the Shakespeare.

The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Failure presumes a lot of prior knowledge. Otherwise, how would you know whether a change represents failing? The word anomaly is important in this context because it refers to a cue that does not fit into a series, something that is a departure from common order, form, or rule.

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

In his finitude each individual begins anew. For his maturing he depends upon authority in order to appropriate the content that can be handed on by tradition. As he grows up within authority, the arena in which he everywhere encounters being opens up to him. If he grows up without authority, he will indeed come to possess knowledge, he will master speaking and thinking, but he will remain at the mercy of the empty possibilities of the realm where Nothingness stares him in the face.

We are more than all our knowledge. What we know confronts an infinitely encompassing unknown. The world is a mystery, and each of us is a mystery to himself.

Can truth be found? Is it possible to live with truth? All life-force stems from blindness. It grows from imagined knowledge, in myth taken for faith, and in the substitute myths; in unquestioning acceptance, and in mind-narrowing untruths. Within the human predicament the quest for truth presents an impossible task.