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Knowledge Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to…
- The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the…
- The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science…
- Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing…
- Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who…
- We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the…
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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey