knowledge,philosophy Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. All men by nature desire to know. Metaphysics

2. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure and equate the universe, which just wont be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely. Fahrenheit 451

3. Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

4. Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. The Count of Monte Cristo

5. Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. The Dream of Scipio

6. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems. Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers: Problems of Empiricism v. 2 (Philosophical Papers

7. Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything]. Apology

8. The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment... The Philosopher's Kiss

9. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Tempest-Tost

10. The only value of wasted time is knowledge. Clown Girl

11. The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

12. To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. The Count of Monte Cristo

13. What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much. The Blind Assassin

14. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. The Picture of Dorian Gray