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I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Weaving the Web (1999)
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
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
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris1834–1896The Decorative Arts (1877)
- Art
- Freedom
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov1899–1977Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
- Knowledge
- Writing
Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
- Knowledge
- Science
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Choruses from The Rock (1934), I
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
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
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- Life & Death
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Forgiveness
- Knowledge
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4
- Clever Jabs
- Knowledge
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Pt. II, Ch. 17: The Rights of Children
- Character
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter1930–2008The Homecoming (1965), act 2, sc. 1
- Comedy
- Knowledge
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
- Knowledge
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Fooled by Randomness (2001)
- Facts
- Knowledge
The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are.
Jerome345–420Apology Against Rufinus, Book III, sec. 27
- Virtue