Quotes About Knowledge

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

critical pedagogy becomes a project that stresses the need for teachers and students to actively transform knowledge rather than simply consume it.

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum.

critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are concerned with the eternal verities of the universe. Believe everything scholars can strictly prove and suit yourself about the rest. Science has nothing to say one way or the other about whether there is a spirit…The evidence lies outside of our present scientific knowledge.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

ces quelques lignes nous livrent peut-être le suprême message de la philosophie ismaélienne : " L'Imam a dit : Je suis avec mes amis partout où ils me cherchent, sur la montagne, dans la plaine et dans le désert. Celui à qui j'ai révélé mon Essence, c'est-à-dire la connaissance mystique de moi-même, celui-là n'a pas besoin d'une proximité physique. Et c'est cela la Grande Résurrection.

Ahora bien, si hay innovación, esta se sitúa precisamente en este punto. La teología debe ser, o volver a ser, una ciencia de la experiencia, aquella cuyos intereses conciernen directamente al destino de cada persona individual.

Ibn Arabi observes that the most perfect of mystic lovers are those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them- selves, because this capacity reveals in them the unification of their twofold nature (a resolution of the torn "conscience malheureuse" ). He who has made himself capable of such love is able to do so because he combines mystic knowledge ( ma rrifa ) with vision ( shuhud) .

That is why the theopathic maxim of the disciples of Ibn Arabi was not Ana'l Haqq "I am God " (Hallaj) , but Ana sirr al-l Haqq, "I am the secret of God," that is to say, the secret of love that makes His divinity dependent on me, because the hidden Treasure "yearned to be known" and it was necessary that beings exist in order that He might be known and know Himself.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.