Quotes About Knowledge

Don't fool around with the masks of reality until you can handle the reality of masks.

Elmyr said it most bluntly: "Without the Experts, there would be no forgers.

The reader terrorized by mathematics (persuaded by incompetent teachers that I can't understand that stuff) need not panic.

The information in a message equals the negative of the probabilities that you can predict what will come next every step of the way. The easier you can predict a message, the less information the message contains.

It is accepted by all schools of philosophy that the world presents only appearances to us. Facts are deduced from the appearances, according to the various factions, by PR (pure reason) or by a combination of PR and SD (sense data) in tandem, or by PR and SD aided and abetted by creative intuition, but in any case, they are deduced, not given. Hume and Nietzsche seem to be alone in claiming that what is called a fact is just another appearance which somebody has decided to believe is a fact.

Villon is great because he doesn't pretend to know what he doesn't know. What he does know he tells us in direct language—language so simple that stupid critics have debated several hundred years now on what makes his poetry so strong.

Most of the world was illiterate until the 1970s. ~•~

Transactional Psychology, based largely on the pioneering research concerning human perception conducted at Princeton University in the 1940s by Albert Ames, agrees with all the above systems that we cannot know any abstract Truth but only relative truths (small t, plural) derived from our gambles as our brain makes models of the ocean of new signals it receives every second.

It is possible that truth only exists when one has already specified the context or field within which one is speaking.

Where scientists are legally or otherwise coerced away from certain areas of investigation, people do not all uniformly stop having experiences that such investigation might scientifically explain; people merely resort, by default, to pre-scientific models to explain the experiences.

fact allegedly exists; a non-fact allegedly doesn't exist. But existence is something we can never know all about. It is a term in metaphysics, not in operational science.

A fact allegedly exists; a non-fact allegedly doesn't exist. But existence is something we can never know all about. It is a term in metaphysics, not in operational science.

To imply something," Jesse said, "you have to know something. I'm just trying to learn.

I sometimes think I know you entirely," I said. "You know me better than anyone ever has," Susan said. "And yet you're quite secretive," I said. "You surprise me often.

I read someplace that wanting to know everything about a person is wanting to possess them." "I believe that is probably true," Susan said.

Theory is no substitute for information," Susan said.

me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...

In the multitude of wisdom is grief, and they that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

I don't laugh very much, he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.

Scott turned away with Maggie at his side. He felt like an idiot for believing he had discovered a glaring discrepancy when top-cop detectives like Orso and Cowly knew the case inside and out. Scott wasn't an idiot, but three more days would pass before he understood.

You're a very wise man. Thank you." He spread his hands. "To possess great wisdom obliges one to share it. Enjoy.