Quotes About Knowledge

Nedostatak znanja priziva najve?e strahove.

La verdadera religión debe enseñar que la vida está repleta de alegrías gratas a los ojos de Dios, y que el conocimiento sin acción está vacío. Todos los hombres deben recordar que la enseñanza de una religión solo por medio de reglas y ejemplos ajenos es una completa mixtificación. Una enseñanza justa y correcta se reconoce con facilidad. Se intuye de inmediato, porque despierta la sensación de que algo se conoce desde siempre».

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events which are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

O conhecimento é uma aventura interminável na borda da incerteza.

How could you win the loyalty of such men?" "There are proven ways: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering. It can be done. It has been done on many worlds in many times.

Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a "safe line of investigations," which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors.

Leave absolute knowledge of the future to those moments of déjà vu which any human may experience. I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert.

Hayat?n s?rr?n?n çözülecek bir problem deÄŸil, tecrübe edilecek bir gerçeklik olduÄŸunu söyledi. Ben de Mentatl???n Ä°lk Yasas?'n? söyledim: 'Bir süreç onu durdurarak anla??lamaz. Ä°drak sürecin ak???yla birlikte gerçekleÅŸmeli, ona kat?lmal? ve onunla birlikte akmal?d?r.

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.

Hawat tried to swallow in a dry throat. Her command had been regal, peremptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible. His body had obeyed her before he could think about it. Nothing could have prevented his response—not logic, not passionate anger…nothing. To do what she had done spoke of a sensitive, intimate knowledge of the person thus commanded, a depth of control he had not dreamed possible.

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn.

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.

GeçmiÅŸi hat?rlayamayanlar onu tekrarlamaya makûmdur.

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

Frank Herbert

Muad'Dib aprendeu rápido porque primeiro lhe ensinaram como aprender. E a primeira lição de todas foi desenvolver a confiança fundamental de que ele era capaz de aprender.

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed. But this made the empty place within him no easier to bear.

Pentru ceilalÈ›i, putem spune c? Muad'Dib a înv??at repede fiindc? prima sa înv???tur? a fost cum s? înveÈ›e. ?i prima lecÈ›ie a acestei înv???turi era încrederea fundamental? c? putea s? înveÈ›e. Este surprinz?tor cât de mulÈ›i oameni nu cred c? pot s? înveÈ›e È™i mai ales cât de mulÈ›i cred c? ete greu s? înveÈ›e.

Grave isto na memória, rapaz: um mundo é sustentado por quatro coisas... o conhecimento dos sábios, a justiça dos poderosos, a prece dos justos e a coragem dos bravos. Mas tudo isso de nada vale... sem um governante que conheça a arte de governar.

Bene Gesserit Way, he opened his mind to Jacurutu, seeking to know nothing about it. Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.