Quotes About Knowledge

Un mundo de cualidades inversas, porque este universo es estable y real. Sócrates comprendió que este mundo de la verdad está al alcance del hombre a través del pensamiento. Él mostró el camino. Platón recordó la lección y la desarrolló: la vía para llegar a la verdad pasa por los conceptos.

Si percibimos cosas cuadradas es porque juzgamos que sus figuras corresponden a esta «forma» de la que tenemos conocimiento (en griego antiguo, «forma» se dice eidos, palabra de la que deriva nuestro vocablo «idea»).

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

The realm of human understanding is the only realm most of us have access to," I said.

But the books she read changed her. Word by word. Idea by idea.

Everything you need to know can be found in a book.

Most people know about the famous cathedrals of Europe, or the caravan routes in the East," Bazzi said. "But few people know about the ancient route where knowledge was shared. We call it the Ink Road, and you are at its epicenter. - about Timbuktu

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences," wrote Bertrand Russell. "They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes them always able to evade it discreetly, to slip round it.

Look here, my friend, for three years I was a bus conductor in Paris. I recommend it during rush hours; it gave me what you might call a knowledge of human nature — a good, solid knowledge which prompted me to change sides and go over to the elephants. I hope that'll do for you, as an explanation.

Or, il ne s'agissait nullement d'un délirant mais d'un cas extrême de cette connerie renseignée, informée sur tout, qui sait, qui « connaît » et à qui « on ne la fait pas ».

Le paradoxe de la science est qu'il n'y a qu'une réponse à ses méfaits et à ses périls : encore plus de science.

Could you let me hear more, without the usual scientific jargon? All this talk of 'antigravity' and 'antimatter' sounds like scientists' covering up a big, dark, uncomfortable gaping hole in their knowledge and understanding.

That might be, but that's exactly where betrayal of human values begins: when the approach to science is merely scientific.

Avea una dintre acele foarte vechi priviri de italian care-È™i cunoaÈ™te lumea. E o privire gurmand? care te înv?luie ca s? te înghit? mai bine.

He wondered, with some annoyance, whether he would finally learn what he wanted to know, or if he would have in the end to content himself with what he already knew. He felt that, at his age, patience was ceasing to be a virtue and was becoming a luxury he could less and less afford.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.