Quotes About Knowledge

Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he

Theories that have not yet been known to be wrong, not falsified yet, but are exposed to be proved wrong. Why is a theory never right? Because we will never know if all the swans are white

Our perceptions and intuitions, as expressed in deeds, can be superior to what we know and tabulate

My idea is that not only are some scientific results useless in real life, because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable (or lead us to ignore it), but that many of them may be actually creating Black Swans.

We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.

how professionals can cause harm for such a long time in the name of knowledge and get away with it.

And the role of such formal knowledge will be overappreciated precisely because it is highly visible.

The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe directly

Black Swan Is Relative to Knowledge

Develops intuitions from practice, goes from observations to books

Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically—and in fact the more powerful, the more incomplete our linguistic grasp.

Relies on scientific papers, goes from books to practice

the learning of life is about what to avoid.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Nuestros libros, en cuanto dejan nuestras manos, tienen vida propia.

If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

I have always loved the feel of books, the way they give a literal weight to words and make of them a sacred object.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

Productiveness is the act of supporting our existence by translating our thought into reality, of setting our goals and working for their achievement, of bringing knowledge, goods, or services into existence.

The alternative is not to hold everything we think in doubt but rather to maintain an openness to new experience and knowledge—