Quotes About Knowledge

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like god transformed into an animal.

We are unknown, we knowers, to ourselves … Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in our selves we are bound to be mistaken, for each of us holds good to all eternity the motto, 'Each is the farthest away from himself'—as far as ourselves are concerned we are not knowers.

the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!…(283).

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.

There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge

art it is easier to go over to a really emancipating philosophical science.

We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science without presuppositions

The errors of great men are more valuable than the truths of lesser men.

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

In the end one has to do everything oneself in order to know a few things oneself: that is, one has a lot to do. But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices—sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.—

Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?

Thus months and years passed by for the lonely one; but his wisdom grew and caused him pain with its fullness.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

We have become so obsessed with rational knowledge, objectivity, and quantification that we are very insecure in dealing with human values and human experience. - Margaret M. Lock

From the new systems point of view, knowledge is part of the process of life, of a dialogue between object and subject. Knowledge and life, then, are inseparable, and therefore, facts are inseparable from values.

Science is not wisdom.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.