The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. 1.79K
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. 652
There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. 2.52K
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. 614
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don’t have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, ‘Oh, well that must be true.’ 640
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. 837
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. 770
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. 626
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. 628
If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans – but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don’t have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that. 2.56K
Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. 2.46K
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. 2.18K
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. 2.16K
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. 709
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. 671
