Quotes About Knowledge

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Protestant insistence on the written word in the Bible as the only and sufficient Christian authority for faith and practice relies on an impossible anachronism that artificially projects a modern standard of authority and means of knowledge conveyance retrospectively back into a pre-modern reality that operated by different but reliable and legitimate standards.

The Catholic Church does not offer certainty in human knowledge in the way that some ex-evangelicals seem to want to have it. So forget about that. Learn, have faith, seek understanding, and be prepared to give an account. Be forgiven and forgive. Be formed by the sacraments and practices of the Church, particularly the Eucharist, and learn Christian love for God and your neighbor. That's it.

In fact, during his life on earth, there were parts of God the Father's plan that Jesus himself did not know (Mark 13:32). As for us, God tells us what we need to know and instructs us to get on with living in light of what he does tell.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right.

And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel. And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

I know too much; I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

Never bring up a point you don't have an answer for.

I can't imagine why you didn't memorize this route on the

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.

Blindur er boklaus madur - Blind is the bookless man.

So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

She [Isis] invented a form of shorthand which she taught to the Egyptians and provided them a way to abridge their excessively involved script.

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

Toute connaissance est le produit d'une situation historique, qu'elle le sache ou non. Mais qu'elle le sache ou non fait une grande différence ; si elle ne le sait pas, si elle se prétend "neutre", elle nie l'histoire qu'elle prétend expliquer, elle est idéologie et non connaissance. Toute connaissance qui ne reconnaît pas, qui ne prend pas pour prémisse l'oppression sociale, la nie, et en conséquence la sert objectivement.

Une connaissance qui prendrait pour point de départ l'oppression des femmes constituerait une révolution épistémologique, et non une nouvelle discipline ayant les femmes pour objet ou une explication ad hoc d'une oppression particulière.

Don't cater to stupidity.

Mine was a single, highly individual case and the doctors had proceeded along the lines they felt would be most beneficial to me alone, with my full knowledge, approval, and consent. Beyond that, I had no advice for anyone...help for others could only come from the acceptance and enlightenment of the public and the medical profession.