Quotes About Knowledge

I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature." "We live longer and observe more," he said. "I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

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.

On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Para los demás, diremos que Muad'Dib aprendió rápidamente porque la primera enseñanza que recibió fue la certeza básica de que podía aprender. Es horrible pensar cómo tanta gente cree que no puede aprender, y cómo más gente aún cree que el aprender es difícil. Muad'Dib sabía que cada experiencia lleva en sí misma su lección.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,' Leto explained. 'To claim absolute knowledge is to becomemonstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Their voices had that end of the workday lift—a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet colored by the knowledge that life would not change for them.

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.

ignorance reduces the shock of some experiences

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.

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

For the others, 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.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

cualquier cosa que podamos identificar como nuestro universo solo es una parte de fenómenos más amplios.

La educación viene de las ciudades, la sabiduría del desierto.»

A b?nui c? eÈ™ti muritor înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te începutul groazei. A afla cu certitudine c? eÈ™ti muritor, înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te sfârÈ™itul groazei.

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

OkumuÅŸ cahiller ordusu yarat?yorlar. Hiçbir ÅŸeyi ÅŸansa b?rakm?yorlar. Zincirler! Yapt?klar? her ÅŸey insanlar? zincire vurmaya, köleleÅŸtirmeye yönelik. Ama köleler mutlaka isyan eder.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. —THE ZENSUNNI WHIP

Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

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.

Data," Paul said. "I need more data.