Quotes About Knowledge

Wenn man erst einmal weiß, Weiß man auch, daß man weiß, Und wüßte lieber nicht. Aber zu spät. Schon weiß man, daß auch Die Hoffnung nie wieder, Nie wieder einkehrt, nie wieder; Sondern quer übers Meer, ade, Denen zusegelt, die Noch nicht wissen, Noch etwa wissen, Daß es etwas Zu wissen Gibt.

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science."4

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist

True philosophy is a matter of a little theory and a lot of practice:

We are not becoming more educated; we are simply acquiring more knowledge. There is a fundamental difference between the two.

Understanding is the beginning of both wisdom and compassion.

having a Ph.D. and working in a university is neither necessary nor certainly sufficient to provide one with unquestionable authority, no matter what the subject.

foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that or which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about this beyond the possibilities of knowledge." So wrote Thomas Henry Huxley, who thought-in the tradition of writers and philosophers like David Hume and Thomas Paine-that we have a moral duty to distinguish sense from nonsense.

Para decidir cuál es la mejor forma de vivir (ética), hay que entender cómo funciona el mundo (física) y razonar adecuadamente sobre ello (lógica).

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

are we going to teach the best of what we currently know about the world (however provisional such knowledge may be), or shall we decide if the earth is flat or round by majority consensus?

El estilo es la relación que el docente sabe establecer con lo que enseña a partir de la singularidad de su existencia y de su deseo de saber.

Es el fantasma que se cierne sobre este trabajo y puede condicionarlo fatalmente: reclinarse sobre lo ya hecho, sobre lo ya dicho, sobre lo ya visto, reducir el amor por el conocimiento a mera administración de un conocimiento que ya no nos reserva sorpresa alguna. En

No company like good books, especially the book of God.

Je vais vous dire quelque chose au sujet des histoires. Elles ne sont pas qu'un amusement, ne vous y trompez pas. Elles sont tout ce que nous savons, voyez-vous, tout ce que nous savons pour combattre la maladie et la mort. Vous n'avez rien si vous n'avez pas les histoires. ( Leslie M. Silko)

Morpheus There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

Trinity The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

We think that most apparently knowledge-intensive organisations can be pretty stupid.