Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
. . . there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Knowledge is knowing. . . or knowing where to find out.
