Quotes About Knowledge

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away

Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?

If it is plausible that ideology will in general serve as a mask for self-interest, then it is a natural presumption that intellectuals, in interpreting history or formulating policy, will tend to adopt an elitist position, condemning popular movements and mass participation in decision making, and emphasizing rather the necessity for supervision by those who possess the knowledge and understanding that is required (so they claim) to manage society and control social change.

Education doesn't determine how you earn, education determines how you spend.

At Harvard they teach people how to rule the world and at MIT they teach them how to make the world work. This is for the elite schools. For the rest, turn them into servants.

People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know more and are smarter but aren't intellectuals because they don't have the privilege. The people called intellectuals are privileged. They have resources and opportunities, and enough freedom has been won so that they state does not have an unrestrained capacity to repress

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away. Life would be pretty boring if we understood everything so better that we don't understand everything

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Necesitamos llegar a comprender las relaciones entre los objetos.

Una empresa intelectual más ambiciosa origina una coherente comprensión del mundo.

Los maestros tienen la obligación de investigar y difundir la verdad sobre los temas más significativos, sobre los temas que importan.

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esencial.

La obligación de cualquier maestro es ayudar a sus estudiantes a descubrir la verdad por sí mismos.

Our own accumulated experience becomes increasingly solidified over time. That is, we start to think we know how the world works, and things that accord with that evolving viewpoint we take in much more easily than things that seem to contradict how we think the world works. This evolution is a kind of ongoing process to the extent that we need to understand further and further how the world works.

It's also important here to distinguish between what's possible to know and understand firsthand from information that must be delivered second-, third-, fourth-hand by a various media; that is, mediated information, which is more and more the case. I mean, we know less and less about the world firsthand than we do through other sources of information.

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esenciales.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

lo que debemos hacer es tratar de entender la verdad acerca del mundo. Y la verdad acerca del mundo es generalmente bastante fea.

That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Such facts cannot be perceived within educated circles if they hope to retain respectability.

El discurso de los privilegios está siempre marcado por la confianza y el triunfalismo: conocemos el camino que tenemos delante, y no hay otro camino.

The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. This is not pointed at anyone. —Max Planck