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At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 253
- Faith
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller1891–1980Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
- Courage
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)
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Mark Twain1835–1910Statement (1906) in Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto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
There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Jnana
- Wisdom
Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Thinking
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Isaac McPherson (1813)
- Ideas
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
- Work
How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- God
Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Response to FDA complaint (1954)
- Freedom
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society”, in Edge (8 August 2007)
- Science
And cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge can hopefully lead to cooperation in the pursuit of peace.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at the University of California at Berkeley
- War & Peace
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977The Great Dictator (1940), the barber’s closing speech
- Thinking