“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not. And today, with a computer, everybody is an intellectual. So I don’t think it has anything to do with someone’s profession or with someone’s socia…”— Umberto Eco, theparisreview.org
“1,500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”— Tommy Lee Jones, amazon.com
“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”— Plato, amazon.com
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”— Douglas Adams, goodreads.com
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”— Paul Kalanithi, amazon.com
“The simplest reply was given by Tolstoy with his statement, 'Science is meaningless because it has no answer to the only questions that matter to us: What should we do? How shall we live?’ The fact that science cannot give us this answer is absolutely indisputable. The question is only in what sense…”— Max Weber, amazon.com