Quotes About Knowledge

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

As ordering operators and image formers in this world of symbolic images, the archetypes thus function as the sought-for bridge between the sense perceptions and the ideas and are, accordingly, a necessary presupposition even for evolving a scientific theory of nature. However, one must guard against transferring this a priori of knowledge into the conscious mind and relating it to definite ideas capable of rational formulation.

One should no more rack one's brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.

he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

The wicked at heart probably know something.

I read in self-defense.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Los pergaminos Normas y Proverbios Los malvados de corazón probablemente sabrán algo

El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.

I'm ordering a bottle of Bordeaux. I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women.

I disagreed. I disagreed with the unquestioning confidence of the truly ignorant

I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women. The trick is to position your eyes so it looks like you're checking the year on the menu but really checking the prices.

What I do have, however, is a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and I propose that it is these specs, combined with a flair for appropriating snippets from erudite sources too deep for me to grasp but which can be utilized in my work to give the deceptive impression of knowing more than I do that keeps this fairy tale afloat.

I tease my parents in this account of my life, but each imparted knowledge to me that has served me well over the decades. From my father: When buying a newspaper from a newsstand, never take the top one. From Mom: The label always goes in the back.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.

Saber: qué verbo amargo.

And moreover, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge were such that he must needs inquire from every one he met the explanation of this, that, and the other; and his own wits were so lively that he was ever ready with an answer himself for any question put to him, so that talkativeness had become, as it were, his second nature. But