All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.”

“Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.”

“Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge.The fear lessened on a higher knowledge.Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.”

“But God caused knowledge to be given to Adam and those with him, so that the kings of chaos and the underworld might not lord it over them.” [–Jesus]”

“I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream.””I think what’s happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They’ve remodeled the world so that ignorance is not really a disadvantage. And I should think that increasingly they’ll carry on reshaping the world to accommodate a net loss of knowledge.”

“As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.”

“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.”

“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this ‘me’ which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer’s life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features ‘biographemes’; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.”

“Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht […].”

“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.”

“As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.”

“You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen…You flatter me by asking my opinion.”

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.”

“Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words,formulated by scholar into knowledge.”

“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read’ Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.”