All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.”
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“The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.”
“Don’t always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.”
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“… In the discourse of today’s financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.”
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“People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn’t got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.”
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“As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. ‘What’s the matter with you? You know he was wrong.’ Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, “I know it, and you know it, but he don’t know it, and that’s where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.”
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“The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.”
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“We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals – or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms”
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”
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“There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.”
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”
“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”
“The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.Listening to the Internet without being confident you’ve found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.”