Quotes About Knowledge

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

the notion that we know all there is to know about people and their needs and that all these data are pinned down exactly and fully explained by the market, the state, sociological surveys, ratings, and everything else that turns people into the Global Anonymous.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.

Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement, matter of fact in some cases it is quite an advantage.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunites of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of Mankind than any of your cotemporarys, that you have never wanted a Book, but it has been supplied you, that your whole time has been spent in the company of Men of Literature and Science. How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead.

It seems to me, he emailed me later, that you start out with what you know or what you think you know and you work within those 'truthful' boundaries until you reach some sort of wilderness of not knowing, and then you find a way through until you see an end, or you find a way through until you find the end that you've already seen. It can work either way: running away from the truth, or running out of it.

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

the love of truth is an act of the spirit.

We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

the precedence of faith over knowledge. "When at Sinai Israel said we shall do and we shall hear (instead of saying, we shall hear and we shall do), a heavenly voice went forth and exclaimed,"Who has revealed to My children this mystery, which the ministering angels enact, to fulfill His word before they hear the voice."1