Quotes About Knowledge

Despite certain obscurities,

If you want to truly advance the path of knowledge, you must not just revere your master, study, and build on his teachings. You must seek out his mistakes.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy—or in our physics.

The essence of scientific knowledge is the capacity to avoid clinging to certainties and received worldviews, and instead be prepared to change these, repeatedly if need be, in light of our knowledge, observations, discussions, different ideas, and criticisms. The nature of scientific thought is critical and rebellious. It does not suffer a priori conclusions, reverence, or untouchable truths.

Why does information play such a central role as this? Perhaps because we must not confuse what we know about a system with the absolute state of the same system. What we know is something concerning the relation between the system and ourselves. Knowledge is intrinsically relational; it depends just as much on its object as upon its subject.

We are structured to manage precisely this: information; and remain in existence thanks to this.

The nature of man is not his internal structure but the network of personal, familial, and social interactions within which he exists. It is these that "make" us, these that guard us. As humans, we are that which others know of us, that which we know of ourselves, and that which others know about our knowledge. We are complex nodes in a rich web of reciprocal information.

man is what we all know.

A scientist is someone who lives immersed in the awareness of our deep ignorance, in direct contact with our own innumerable limits, with the limits of our understanding.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

This is also what critical reading of our histories makes possible: we cannot repair what we cannot reconcile; we cannot truly know what we will not truly see.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Perder tempo em aprender coisas que não interessam, priva-nos de descobrir coisas interessantes.

Passe bem, ignaro, ou melhor, passe mal!

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.

The books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them.

Membangun perpustakaan adalah mencipta kehidupan.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.