Quotes About Knowledge

How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn—and not from his Master. From Palpatine.

He sugerido que los muros de la academia deben de ser porosos, y que en la misma medida en que las instituciones académicas se vuelcan hacia adentro para refinar sus disciplinas y ámbitos de estudio, deben también volverse hacia el mundo público, y asumir que se sitúan ya siempre en el seno de ese mundo.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?

I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common. Among them is the view that the existence of knowledge must be justified against the sceptic, that is, the person who thinks that we can never know anything, because he holds that we can never meet the conditions for knowledge.

In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common. Among them is the view that the existence of knowledge must be justified against the sceptic, that is, the person who thinks that we can never know anything, because he holds that we can never meet the conditions for knowledge. Knowledge is taken to be, at least in part, a matter of being in the right relation to facts or information.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

unified understanding is not a theoretical grasp cut off from practice, but may itself involve a practical ability to apply the understanding in question.)

Socrates never raises the question whether there is such a thing as wisdom or expertise.

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter.

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter. Socrates' victims can produce plenty of words, but they fail to give a reasoned account of their subjects, and so are shown not to understand what they are talking about.

standards for 'giving an account'? This is obviously crucial for the question of whether you really know, that is, understand something. Minimally, of course, you have to be able to keep your end up in an argument and show that your position is consistent.

dominance of what we can call the expertise model for knowledge. What is taken to matter for knowledge is whether you can, as an expert can, grasp the relevant items in a way that relates them to one another and to the field as a whole, and can give a reasoned account of this, one which explains the particular judgements you make and relates them to your unified grasp of the whole.

Not through repression, but through knowledge of the differences within ourselves can we achieve the solidarity with others which, though necessarily partial, is essential for the creation of a more just and free world.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Die knowing something. You're not here long.

Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.