Knowledge Quotes - Page 45

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

I think, therefore I laugh.

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.