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 Nehamas

Mots clés knowledge philosophy

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Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Thomas Gray

Mots clés knowledge nostalgia youth childhood ignorance

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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.

Plato

Mots clés wisdom knowledge apology plato socrates

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The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

Julien Smith

Mots clés past future knowledge courage ability perserverance flinch

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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. Vinluca

Mots clés knowledge power men vanity control fools

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If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.

Jamie Leanne Gaines

Mots clés friendship knowledge hate knowing enemy

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The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

Nick Drake

Mots clés knowledge power information

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Skepsis wirft Fragen auf, die zu Nachforschungen führen. Das ist sehr hilfreich, um neue Dinge zu entwickeln.

Dalai Lama XIV

Mots clés knowledge

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Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit.

Dalai Lama XIV

Mots clés knowledge

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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?

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mots clés knowledge curiousity the-two-towers

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