Authority Quote by David Roochnik

Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an…

— David Roochnik

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Socrates repeatedly emphasized the point that moral knowledge is not mere acquisition of information but personal change. To know the good is to do…

— Steven B. Cowan

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without…

— Muhammad Asad

“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”

— Barry Schwartz

“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”

— Jon Erickson

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man…

— Hermann Nothnagel

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase…

— Ameen Rihani

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

— Leon Kass

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're…

— Herbert Simon