Quotes About Knowledge

Mentats cultivated naivete. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.

Leto smiled. "Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known

The Fremen are civil, educated and ignorant," Scytale said. "They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

What are you saying? Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' Moneo opened his mouth but closed it without speaking. 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. Moneo! Uncover yourself!

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.

The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known." There

It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.

The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.

we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad

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when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

Ljudi koji u proro?anstvu traže budu?nost zapravo žele znati kakva ?e biti cijena kitovog krzna idu?e godine ili nešto sli?no banalno. Nitko stvarno ne želi imati život predvidiv u svakom trenutku.

A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions

When you rule, you gain knowledge of power. This can lead into impetuous irresponsibility, into painful excesses and that can lead to the terrible destroyer-wild hedonism.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.

we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.