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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
- Education
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Fooled by Randomness (2001)
- Facts
In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Tramp Abroad (1880)
He is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man — and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I know the rest.
Mark Twain1835–1910Statement (1906) in Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
- Comedy
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War, Chapter XIII · Intelligence and Espionage
- War & Peace
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War (5th century BC), Chapter IIIIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Information is not knowledge.
?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Gore Vidal1925–2012Julian (1964), Chapter 4
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, XIX: Philosophical Maxims
- Wisdom
Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom