Browsing Quotes With Tag: knowledge (21)
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“What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer.
“Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him,” he was fond of repeating. “That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers. But we don’t understand his answers. We can’t understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!”Speaker: NightSource: Elie WieselPosted: 12 Dec 2009 at 7:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? I was inviting a permanent, violent guest into my home. He would defecate on my bed. He would shred my clothes, light fires on the walls. I could see him walking up the driveway and I stood at the door, knowing that I’d be a fool to bring him inside. But I still opened the door.
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“But I will say no more about it. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing. they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think [Science is] the way of arriving at truth about the universe because, taken at its most general sense, science is disciplined inquiry. It’s an inquiry that formulates its questions carefully, and which tests them – and it does so in a way that is public and repeatable – which submits itself to review by other people (i.e. – challenge), and which is very open-minded; it’s prepared to accept that it may not arrive at answers but, if it does arrive at answers, those answers might generate new questions. But it’s prepared to put up with those. There’s something very special about the scientific mindset, which is that it is prepared to live with open-endedness.
Speaker: A.C. GraylingSource: http://whyscience.co.uk/Posted: 07 Aug 2009 at 7:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Speaker: Rachel CarsonPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Speaker: Adolf BerleSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the paradoxes I have gathered on these pages have on recurring theme, it is the folly of denying ignorance. Just because something is so doesn’t mean that we can know it. There is necessary ignorance, and it is more significant than mere solipsism would have us believe.
Speaker: William PoundstoneSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponent and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Speaker: Max PlanckSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Answers are about the past, and abilities are about the future
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which hell affords.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“It is strange, at first, to think in the right way. But there are a few things we can know, a few things to be sure of, and it is relatively easy. Let me show you. To know the truth, all you have to do is close your eyes.”
“It’s that easy?” I laughed.
“Yes. All you have to do is close your eyes. We can know God, for example, and we can know sadness. We can know dreams, and we can know love. But none of these are real, in our usual sense of things that exist in the world and seem real. We cannot weigh them, or measure their length, or find their basic parts in an atom smasher. Which is why they are possible.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!