Knows Quotes by Umberto Eco

14 Knows quotes by Umberto Eco

Eco’s reflections on knowledge are compact yet packed with his signature scholarly wit. Though the collection is brief, each of the 14 statements offers a thoughtful nudge toward the layers hidden beneath everyday certainty.

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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

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“…because one who knows not how to seek will never find…”

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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true.…

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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are…

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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember…

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“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse…

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Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,…

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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is…

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Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other…

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We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal…

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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We…

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“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy…

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“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our…

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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…

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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

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“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...”

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“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

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Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't…

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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…

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