Topic: “Knowledge”

🔎 Lexicon containing “Knowledge”

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Knowledge

Justified true belief; the understanding and awareness gained through experience or reason.

💬 Quote Library — containing “Knowledge”

Imagine What You’ll Know Tomorrow

Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

from Men in Black

Unknown (often attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib)

The Learned Man Understands the Ignorant

The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.

from Unknown (often attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib)

He Is Firmly Persuaded That He Knows Already

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded...

from The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

No Reasonable Man Could Doubt It

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

📖 Excerpts Library

Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...

Source: We Choose to Go to the Moon

He Brought It to Life with His Poetic Touch

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand, not far from here in Menlo Park, and...

Source: Steve Job’s 2005 Commencement Address

You’re a Scientist. Stop Guessing. Know. Or Be Quite. That Is All.

You're a scientist. Stop guessing. Know. Or be quite. That is all.

The Secret Teachers of the Western World

It Is a Knowledge of Our Inner World, Not the Outer One

There is another kind of knowledge. It is not one of physical facts, nor can it be quantified and measured. It is a knowledge of our inner world, not the outer one, a knowledge of what we used to call...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman

In Order to Maintain Itself, It Had to Go “Underground”

We know that with the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century—a development clearly linked to the temperament of the left brain—the esoteric tradition lost much of its prestige and that, in order to maintain itself, it had to...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman

Astronomy magazine asks William Shatner about science

How Do You Balance Science with Science Fiction?

How do you balance science with science fiction? They're both the same.

Source: Astronomy magazine asks William Shatner about science

Truth Has Been in the World Unrecognized

They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized.

Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall

A Sense of This Invisible, Other Reality

For those who have a sense of this invisible, other reality, the answers to life’s mysteries offered by modern science are inadequate and unsatisfying. They are unable to accept them and they find themselves seeking something else.

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman

The Universe Could Be Understood and Is Worthy of Analytical Study

The word ‘cosmology’ is derived from the ancient Greek word kosmeo, which means ‘to order’ or ‘to organise’, reflecting the belief that the universe could be understood and is worthy of analytical study. The cosmos had patterns, and it was...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed

Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...

Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck