The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling b...
Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I...
Duke: I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved...
Priest: If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell. Commoner: Right. The world's a kind of hell. Priest: No! I don't want to believe that! Commoner: No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of the...
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards ...
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
Power contains secrets...Secrets contain knowledge...Knowledge contains power.
Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
