Quotes About Knowledge

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

Roughly, execution and understanding are merely different exercises of knowledge of the tricks of the same trade.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology.

A boy can be said to have partial knowledge of the counties of England, if he knows some of them and does not know others. But he could not be said to have incomplete knowledge of Sussex being an English county.

If I think, hope, remember, will, regret, hear a noise, or feel a pain, I must, ipso facto, know that I do so.

Nor could it be maintained that the agent himself can know that any overt action of his own is the effect of a given volition.

He applies in his practice what Aristotle abstracted in his theory of such practices.

Knowledge is not constructed abstractly on the basis of sensation but problematically on the basis of an initial tropistic and taxic unity, which is the coupling of tropism and sensation, an orientation of the living being in a polarized world.

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

le persan Al-Sadjâssi, écrivait il y'a des siècles: Quand la sagesse est descendue des étages du ciel vers le centre de la terre, elle s'est établie en quatre gîtes et s'est installée en quatre demeures: dans le cerveau des grecs, sur la langue des arabes, dans la main des chinois et dans le cœur des perses.

Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

She calls these reader moments the quibbles—when she gets stuck in the faulty notion that everything in a book must be grasped. Why should readers be spooked about not knowing all the details in a book about the Philippines yet surge forward with resolve in stories about France?

We cried for what we'd lost: people and time, as well as for what we'd gained: knowledge and truth.

After a certain age, you finally become the indisputable authority on the subject of yourself.

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.

The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we may feel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

Revolutionary law number one," someone said. "Capitalism has cheated us. Books are not to be bought, they are to be repossessed." "This is robbery," I said. "Let's not kid ourselves. And don't do that to me again. You scared me to death." "It's not robbery. Books are ideas. They should be able to circulate freely within society. At no price at all, or for pennies. Knowledge is universal. It belongs to all of us.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

I have always understood that there is a kind of philosophical language which is only accessible to special philosophers