#knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#know #mind #own #self-knowledge #worth

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. ↗

— David Brin

#democracy #empowered #knowledgeable #only #perform

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ↗

— John Cheever

#choose #evil #good #good and evil #knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #evil #knowledge #virtuous

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#knowledge #lies #piling #process #simplification

Doubt grows with knowledge. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#grows #knowledge

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read. ↗

— Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

#experience #self-knowledge #study #experience

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bold #every #fearing #follow #i

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially