Quotes About Knowledge

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

What I'm going to tell you now, he said, may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Life was so short, and books so countlessly many.

The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground

The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored.

Hitler", wrote Herman Rauschning in 1939, " has a deep respect for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order, not because of their Christian doctrine, but because of the ´machinery they have elaborated and controlled, their hierarchical system, their extremely clever tactics, their knowledge of human nature and their wise use of human weaknesses in ruling over believers.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

62,400 repetitions make one truth.

In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.

Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.

Meaningless pseudoknowledge has at all times been one of the principal motivators of individual and collective action. And that is one of the reasons why the course of human history has been so tragic and at the same time so strangely grotesque.

Life is so constituted that we can make effective use of things whose nature we do not understand.

We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent—and in an absolute sense we can know nothing—a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!