All Quotes By Tag: Knowing

“It is easier to not know than to not comprehend, for not knowing implies that the world is large, and that is a fact. Not comprehending is a far more personal fault.”

“A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn’t know much.”

“If I knew then what I know now I guess it’d make no difference; Fate’s sure in the way somehow. What’s important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal.”

“There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.”

“We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.”

“A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.”

“A sense of mission lostin ink’sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn’t recognize at first.”

“Once you know what you want in life…Like a magnet you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.”

“An aware theist understands that believing in God does not equal the fact of knowing that God exists.”

“Knowledge, self confident knowledge, which is sure that it is faultless, is faith.”

“If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean that many years earlier the electron must have passed through one slit or the other. But if I don’t use the “slit detector,” then the electron must have passed through both slits. This is, of course, extremely weird. My actions at the beginning of the twenty-first century can change what happened thousands of years ago when the electron began its journey. It seems that just as there are multiple futures, there are also multiple pasts, and my acts of observation in the present can decide what happened in the past. As much as it challenges any hope of ever really knowing the future, quantum physics asks whether I can ever really know the past. It seems that the past is also in a superposition of possibilities that crystallize only once they are observed.”

“Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!”

“An educated person is she or he who knows where or how to acquire knowledge.”

“Beliefs are a consequence of what has been instituted. Knowing is a result of what has been experienced. Adopt what’s real and moderate what feels.”

“People used to build great libraries to symbolize man’s quest for knowledge, now we have the Internet which is both more powerful and wonderful. The men who used to get their information from the library were considered scholars but the men who get their information from the Internet are considered idiots, or worse, thieves.”