Quotes About Knowledge

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Erst durch Lesen lernt man, wie viel man ungelesen lassen kann.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it. WILHELM REICH

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

It would not bother me if another scientist wanted to reduce my thirst for knowledge to the biological function of a puppy who goes around sniffing at everything. Indeed, it would make me happy to be biologically compared to a lively and lovable puppy.

You did not know, Little Man, what a library is for.

Bilge insan, o an elinde olanla ya?amay? bilendir. Ters durumlardan da ç?karacak bir ?eyler bulunur: "Bundan da bir ?eyler ö?renebilirim." Ya?am boyu çok ?ey ö?renmi?tir ve çok ?ey biliyordur fakat tüm bilginin göreceli oldu?unu da biliyordur.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.