All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“All we know is what we’re told.”
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“Truth ain’t be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.”
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“Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.”
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“We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t see them under our big noses.”
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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
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“It’s amazing to observe numerous dull beings with some illusion of knowledge around you. In their mind, they know that God exists, but even if it is not case that God exists, they would still believe it. In their mind, they know that some political ideologies express objectivity, but even if it is not case that these ideologies express objectivity, they would still believe them. In their mind, they know that some historical facts are true, but even if it is not case that these facts are true, they would still believe them. Whatever is in their mind is merely belief but not knowledge. The paradox of knowledge emerges when a person confuses knowledge with belief.”
“As he learned more math, Brodt made the wonder-inspiring observation that mathematical laws seemed to be Someone’s intention rather than just accidents in many concepts: infinity, unity being totality, irrational numbers in general and pi in particular as it illustrates such disparate occurrences as the relationship of height to base perimeter in the Great Pyramid of Giza and the course of any meandering river (over a surface smoothed for consistency). There was also the Fibonacci Sequence, that looping string of addends which, with their sums, describes the spirals on a nautilus shell, the distribution of leaves around a tree branch, and the genealogy of ants and bees. It all seemed too orderly, too regular and consistent to have occurred by chance. So many things in the world appeared as blotches, smears, or random spikes that these mathematically explained phenomena were extraordinary–he wanted to say mystical, but he wouldn’t want to be caught using that word.”
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“The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn’t chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.”
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“After attainment of Supreme Knowledge a man lives but he does not lead an ordinary man’s life. He lives, he eats, he sleeps and by God’s commandment he becomes a “man-catcher” as Christ told Peter.”
“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”
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“I know certain truths about life.”
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“Today wouldn’t have happened if histories weren’t falsified.”