Quotes About Knowledge

George Berkeley makes the case that all our knowledge of the world comes to us through our senses, so in the end all we've really got is this sense data inside our heads. We cannot claim that is a chair out there, only that we have some chair sense data in our minds. So it is impossible to claim that the chair is anything more than a bunch of sensory experiences that we cobble together in our minds and call a "chair.

I hope there is no God" passage, Nagel wrote that "[I] am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers." I, too, know a great number of very bright and knowledgeable people who are believers. It sometimes makes me wonder if the skeptics have it backward: maybe I am just not wise enough to be a believer.

Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.

Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.

Histories, like all products of disciplinary knowledge, are made in the context of what their own frames will allow. It is the frames that one must stretch and bend.

good piano tuner must have knowledge not only of his instrument but of "Physics, Philosophy, and Poetics," so that Edgar, although he never attended university, reached his twentieth birthday with more education than many who had.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was standing, finally, in the place where everything begins: the tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge that, as I learned long ago, is something divided, something that because growth occurs only through the medium of time, brings both pleasure and, finally, sorrow.

The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know the father.

Dans ses études, l´homme a pris la fâcheuse habitude de tout morceler, de se spécialiser, pour employer le terme consacré. Seule une vue globale et synthétique des phénomènes peut donner les clés de la véritable compréhension.

On commence par savoir, ensuite on comprend, enfin seulement vient la Connaissance.

Precisamos, amigos e amigas, nos libertar desse conceito que desvaloriza a nossa diversidade. Precisamos entender que não existem índios no Brasil. Precisamos aprender como chamá-los, festejá-los, conhecê-los e, principalmente, valorizá-los. Precisamos encontrar um lugar para eles dentro de cada um de nós. E a maneira em que mais bem podemos fazer isso é conhecendo-os da melhor forma possível.

Desenvolvemos determinado pensamento sobre o índio, o qual vem sendo repetido à exaustão desde há muito tempo, revelando que não sabemos, de fato, quem é o índio e quais são suas especificidades culturais.

Can that be called perfect knowledge . . . If one is not released while enjoying the pleasures of sense? 2 sings Saraha, one of the Buddhist masters who lived sometime between the second and seventh centuries.

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts.

When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts

Quels pédagogues nous étions, quand nous n'avions pas le souci de la pédagogie !

Il sapere è innanzitutto carnale. Le nostre orecchie e i nostri occhi lo captano, la nostra bocca lo trasmette. Certo, ci viene dai libri, ma i libri escono da noi. Fa rumore, un pensiero, e il piacere di leggere è un retaggio del bisogno di dire.

What we need to understand is that books weren't written so that young people could write essays about them, but so that they could read them if they really wanted to. Knowledge, academic track record, career, and social life are one thing. Our intimacy and cultural awareness as readers are quite another.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.