Quotes About Knowledge

faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual .

The more we know of the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves.

The truth and treasure of the universe is its own existence, and our quest for that truth and treasure will be eternal, like the universe itself.

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

Although we cannot rid ourselves of misconceptions, we can correct them when we become aware of them.

If the cognitive function operated in isolation, without any interference from the manipulative function, it could produce knowledge. Knowledge is represented by true statements. A statement is true if it corresponds to the facts. But if the manipulative function is at work, the facts no longer serve as an independent criterion of truth.

Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.

A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.

What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough

That remains part of the problem—that we don't know the unpleasant aspects of American history...and therefore we don't learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us. So we repeat them over and over again.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

I reads every chance I can gets.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.