Quotes About Knowledge

Astronomy was the special science of the Babylonians, for which they were famous throughout the ancient world.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

How little you know the age you live in, says a god in Ovid, if you fancy that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari—

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Cuando el universo aplaste al hombre, este seguirá siendo más noble que aquel que lo mata, porque sabrá que está muriendo, mientras que de su victoria el universo no sabrá nada».

To the Romans, the Greeks and the Jews Sumeria was unknown.

Some books are to be tasted," reads a famous passage, "others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested";

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536).

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

The author believes that epistemology has kidnapped modern philosophy, and well nigh ruined it; he hopes for the time when the study of the knowledge-process will be recognized as the business of the science of psychology, and when philosophy will again be understood as the synthetic interpretation of all experience rather than the analytic description of the mode and process of experience itself.

Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.

in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates

Before Aristotle, science was in embryo; with him it was born.

Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation.

Now began the great game of epistemology

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing, Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Who knows how these cherished beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought? There is no philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself. Gnothi seauton, said Socrates: Know thyself.

There can be no victory over the ills of life until the will has been utterly subordinated to knowledge and intelligence.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

And finally there must be education—some technique, however primitive, for the transmission of culture. Whether through imitation, initiation or instruction, whether through father or mother, teacher or priest, the lore and heritage of the tribe—its language and knowledge, its morals and manners, its technology and arts—must be handed down to the young, as the very instrument through which they are turned from animals into men.

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon. So, brave reader, you have fair warning: proceed at your own risk. But I shall be warmed by your company. Will Durant

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

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