Quotes
Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
"And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy. (p. 154)
You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?
In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.
No, men are not born to know, but they are destined for it.
The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.
To know: it is to see inside oneself.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
