Quotes About Knowledge

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Another book was opened, which is the book of life.

The light that cometh from her [wisdom] never goeth out.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

Dare to be wise.

Dare to be wise. (Sapere Aude)

Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Show a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

The more you know, the less you need to show.

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Wisdom is not bought.

Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book].

The eggs do not teach the hen.

As pinturas, e muito mais tarde, os textos serviram de marcos e de pausas para reflexão, alertas, divertimento e prazer. Ajudaram a clarificar o que deveriam ter sido confrontos confusos com a realidade. Ajudaram a deslindar e a organizar o conhecimento. Proporcionaram um caminho para a compreensão do que significam as coisas.

The sciences alone cannot illuminate the entirety of human experience without the light that comes from the arts and humanities.

Loss of the hippocampus in both cerebral hemispheres disrupts the formation of and access to long-term memory of integrated scenes. Unique events are no longer recalled even if objects and events can still be recognized outside a unique context. One is able to recognize a house as a house, but not the particular house where one has lived. The contextual, episodic knowledge acquired by personal, individual experience is no longer accessible. The generic, semantic knowledge is still recoverable.

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

The good news, however, is that the self also has made reason and scientific observation possible, and reason and science, in turn, have been gradually correcting the misleading intuitions prompted by the unaided self. Overcoming

A metafísica e a ciência não são pois rivais, mas colaboradoras na obra do conhecimento, e a concepção metafísica e a científica não devem ser representadas como duas esferas opostas, mas como dois círculos concêntricos.