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Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
Václav Havel1936–2011The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
- Knowledge
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), Ch. 5: The Fatal Conceit.
- Economics
- Knowledge
As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (15 May 1878)
- Knowledge
- Money
Prejudice is the child of ignorance…
William Hazlitt1778–1830Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), “On Prejudice”
- Knowledge
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969)
- Knowledge
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word “understanding.”
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Knowledge
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Knowledge
- Science
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 97
- Animals
- Knowledge
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Heraclitus535–470 BCSource: Clement, Stromates, II, 8, 1
- Knowledge
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Gertrude (1910)
- Knowledge
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- Faith
- Knowledge
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Anti-God
- Knowledge
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
- Facts