130 Quotations Found

To understand anything — another person’s experience of reality, another fundamental law of physics — is to restructure our existing knowledge, shifting and broadening our prior frames of reference to accommodate a new awareness. And yet we have a habit of confusing our knowledge — which is always limited and incomplete: a model of the cathedral of reality, built from primary-colored blocks of fact — … [ Read more ]

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones. Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient. Then you’ll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

Author: James Clavell | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

The Sufis say, “Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.”

Author: Elif Shafak | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

Author: David Stevens | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Intelligence | Knowledge

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Author: Charles Bukowski | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it. … [ Read more ]

Author: Rene Descartes | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

Keep the company of those who seek the truth – run from those who have found it.

Author: Vaclav Havel | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

We inaccurately assume that what is common practice represents objective truths about the world, as opposed to being deliberately created and perpetuated because it benefits certain groups.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be ‘for’ or ‘against.’ The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.

Author: Sēngcàn (Sent -ts’an) | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

I would not go so far as to claim that knowledge and wisdom are mutually exclusive; but they are far from being communicating vessels, and the level of one has no bearing on that of the other. More people have gained wisdom from unknowledge, which is not the same as ignorance, than from knowledge.

Author: Erwin Chargaff | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

Our understanding of the world is built up of innumerable layers. Each layer is worth exploring, as long as we do not forget that it is one of many. Knowing all there is to be known about one layer — a most unlikely event — would not teach us much about the rest. The integration of the enormous number of bits of information and the … [ Read more ]

Author: Erwin Chargaff | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

What is “familiarly known” is not properly known, just for the reason that it is “familiar.” When engaged in the process of knowledge, it is the commonest form of self-deception, and a deception of other people as well, to assume something to be familiar, to give assent to it on that very account.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

All great truths are obvious truths, but not all obvious truths are great truths.

Author: Aldous Huxley | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Author: Erwin Schrodinger | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

But what kind of knowledge is concerned with that which is outside and independent of all relations, that which alone is really essential to the world, the true content of its phenomena, that which is subject to no change, and therefore is known with equal truth for all time, in a word, the Ideas, which are the direct and adequate objectivity of the thing in-itself, … [ Read more ]

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer | Subjects: Art, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

When people reflect on what it takes to be mentally fit, the first idea that comes to mind is usually intelligence. The smarter you are, the more complex the problems you can solve— and the faster you can solve them. Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter … [ Read more ]

Author: Adam Grant | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Subjects: Change, Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

We are as clever with our machines and technologies as we are simple-minded in the management of our emotions. We are, in terms of wisdom, little more advanced than the ancient Sumerians or the Picts. We have the technology of an advanced civilization balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves. We have the appetites and destructive … [ Read more ]

Author: Alain de Botton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Wisdom

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge