I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.
Alexander NehamasTags: knowledge philosophy
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Tags: knowledge nostalgia youth childhood ignorance
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
PlatoTags: wisdom knowledge apology plato socrates
The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.
Julien SmithTags: past future knowledge courage ability perserverance flinch
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
J.P. VinlucaTags: knowledge power men vanity control fools
If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.
Jamie Leanne GainesTags: friendship knowledge hate knowing enemy
The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.
Nick DrakeTags: knowledge power information
Skepsis wirft Fragen auf, die zu Nachforschungen führen. Das ist sehr hilfreich, um neue Dinge zu entwickeln.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: knowledge
Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: knowledge
Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?"
"The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?
Tags: knowledge curiousity the-two-towers
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