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.
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Quotes tagged ‘Knowledge’
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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…
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.
Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.
— Plato, amazon.com
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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.
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.
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…