Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinStichwörter: science certainty knowledge willful-ignorance ignorance open-mindedness
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: knowledge
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.
Edward W. SaidStichwörter: knowledge history interpretation human-society
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W.E.B. Du BoisStichwörter: truth knowledge humanity ignorance poverty wickedness
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton ChekhovThere is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. Du BoisBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John WesleyStichwörter: reading books love knowledge
Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.
Mary B. MorrisonStichwörter: knowledge
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: knowledge inspiration self-discovery understanding self-awareness search instinct seekers
Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
Stichwörter: humor money reading education knowledge army detectives spenser britain irrelevance
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