Quotes about "Global & Cultural Wisdom"

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ”

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ”

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing. ”

Information is not knowledge. ”

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. ”

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ”

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ”

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? ”

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ”