Quotes About Knowledge

Todo conocimiento de la realidad parte de la experiencia y acaba en ella.

seiscientas cincuenta y siete clases de agua y de sus profundidades.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

no acababa de entender que el conocimiento progresa por acumulación y en colaboración.

What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.

The priest knows only one great danger: that is science

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

epistemological

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

The person who controls history controls their fate. The man who can tell you what happened, or did not happen, is lord and master of all he surveys.

Hi,' Winifred Minette said to her husband. Socrates imagined all of the sweet knowledge buried in her hello. It made him happy.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' 'less somebody else can understand.

The question is,' John added, 'if a person inside a culture has no knowledge of his place in the unfolding of that culture, or in the history of any other people, and if no one else among either the oppressors or the oppressed has that knowledge, can that person be said to be alive? Indeed on what plane could he possibly exist except as chattel where he is a slave or not?