Quotes About Knowledge

James Henry Hyslop

Some parts of history, however, do not merely recede into history, but into oblivion, into historical knowledge vacuums and sometimes into black holes.

seems that our entire species has been totally preoccupied with measuring everything possible, and even of finding subtle and invisible things to take "the measure of." Measuring activity seems both a necessary and a good

HISTORICAL TIDBIT: In English, the term INFORM is taken from the Latin IN + FORMA, which meant "to put into [a] form." The term INFORMATION appeared in English at about 1387 at which time it referred to "formation or moulding of the mind or character, training, instruction, or teaching; communication of instructive knowledge." Somewhere

If Intelligence exists as a universal, then this would be the best universal way to divide up a planet so as to know where one is on it.

is far easier to agree with the eminent researchers Penfield and Eccles and hypothesize that there exists a greater "organ" possessing enormous powers — which, although completely invisible to our present materialistic knowledge, certainly must exist. And it was this "organ" that John Traynor and Mason somehow activated — although, of course, quite inadvertently.

Certain theories regarding information hold that it exists everywhere as sort of a cosmic thing. And if one had an 'address' for it, one could link into it, like a computer that can find information if there is a correct address for it.

a brief aside, consider the wide-ranging philosophical importance of the following maxim: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Finally, Dr. Sean C. Solomon of MIT reported (in Astronautics, February 1962) that "The Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the moon's gravitational field indicating the frightening possibility that the moon might be hollow." Frightening? What, indeed, is the significance of that word? The significance was mentioned by no less a figure than the late and great astronomer Carl Sagan in his book Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966).

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

In this, the thinking proceeds from actual experience and not from analyzing the information packages presented in the works of others.

Il tuo destino ha fatto molto scalpore a Costanza. Non vi era persona alla quale io chiedessi che non sapesse darmi una risposta.

Only ignorants get bored

No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

The only way out is deeper in. It's what you don't yet know that can save you.

many Christians are totally ignorant of who Satan is and what his devices, schemes, and strategies are against all believers in Christ.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.