What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
Henry David ThoreauWhich is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
Henry David ThoreauBegging your pardon,' groused the Yeti, 'but I believe you haven't the first idea of what's happened to me or the weather in Fairyland or the least fact about the least thing in the known universe. Just my opinion, of course.
Catherynne M. ValenteAn educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
Peter BoghossianTag: humor knowledge funny theology rationalization pretending theologian
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
Diogenes LaertiusTag: life existence knowledge philosophy belief atheism philosopher metaphysics gods question greek greece obstacles agnosticism zeus the-gods pantheon
Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.
Idries ShahTag: wisdom experience knowledge evolution sufism
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar
Idries ShahTag: wisdom knowledge god evolution sufism sufis
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
Veronica RothTag: knowledge power evil good
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
Tim FargoTag: success thinking education knowledge learning school teaching obedience excellence teacher boundaries successful educate compliance
Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of “manufacturing a controlled substance.” Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge.
Michael PollanTag: knowledge drugs crime eden
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