Quotes About Knowledge

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

increasing inequalities might emerge between tech-savvy individuals, who understand and control these technologies, and less knowledgeable individuals, who are passive users of a technology they do not understand.

Als ob es darauf ankäme, dass man alle diese Bücher, die hier stehen, gelesen hat. Nein, man will sie irgendwann lesen. Man hat sie, damit man in einer bestimmten Stunde einfach an das Regal treten kann, das Buch herauszieht und zu lesen beginnt.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

EDUCATION IS THE PREMISE OF PROGRESS

Bilgi güçtür, bilgi özgürle?tirir.

a lot of books to read but time is limited

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

The author has greatly enjoyed being able to discuss this subject with a few mathematicians and physicists. The greatest handicap to cooperation is certainly the difference in terms between the individual, specialized fields of knowledge. We hope that this chasm will be bridged in time and that through cybernetics, a true bridge between physics and the automaton theory can be built.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

You were my best friend. I was supposed to know you.

To memorize something, it's best to write it down.

I'd like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.