Quotes About Knowledge

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my understanding of the Ashaninca view of reality had seized up; conversely, on the rare occasions that I had managed to silence my doubts, my understanding of local reality had been enhanced — as if there were times when one had to believe in order to see, rather than the other way around.

In shamanic traditions, it is invariably specified that spiritual knowledge is not marketable. Certainly, the shaman's work deserves retribution, but, by definition, the sacred is not for sale; the use of this knowledge for the accumulation of personal power is the definition of black magic.

All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

It was in Rio that I realized the extent of the dilemma posed by the hallucinatory knowledge of indigenous people. On the one hand, its results are empirically confirmed and used by the pharmaceutical industry; on the other hand, its origin cannot be discussed scientifically because it contradicts the axioms of Western knowledge.

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Every schoolboy knows it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

The whole truth is not taught in a single passage: we must always bear in mind the exact point of an illustration.

The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

Culture and education are two sides of the same coin, and we cannot understand one without understanding the other.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.