Quotes About Knowledge

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Only describe, don't explain.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

You don't know what you don't know

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.