„Perhaps the topic [of this book] will appear fairly difficult to you because it is not yet familiar knowledge and the understanding of beginners is easily confused by mistakes; but with your inspiration and my teaching it will be easy for you to master, because clear intelligence supported by good lessons is a fast route to knowledge.“

„Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.“

—  Henning Mankell Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist 1948 - 2015

„You should keep sacred every impuls of your mind; you should keep sacred every pious sentiment; because that is art in us. In an inspired hour she will appear in a clear form, and this form will be your picture.“

—  Caspar David Friedrich Swedish painter 1774 - 1840

as quoted in Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, Barbara Novak; Oxford University Press, 2007, note 74
undated

„You cannot successfully use your technical knowledge unless you are a fairly educated person, and, in particular, have some knowledge of the whole field of the social sciences as well as some knowledge of history and philosophy. Of course real competence in some particular field comes first. Unless you really know your economics or whatever your special field is, you will be simply a fraud. But if you know economics and nothing else, you will be a bane to mankind, good, perhaps, for writing articles for other economists to read, but for nothing else.“

—  Friedrich Hayek Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate 1899 - 1992

Friedrich Hayek (1991). "On being an economist." In: W. W. Bartley and S. Kresge (eds.), The Trend of Economic Thinking; Essays on Political Economists and Economic History, Volume III, London. Routledge. p. 38
1980s and later

„Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.“

—  Eliezer Yudkowsky American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher 1979

Your Strength As A Rationalist http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/ (August 2007)

„Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.“

—  Bernard of Clairvaux French abbot, theologian 1090 - 1153

Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
Originál: (la) Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

„You know the word master, teacher? When you go to schools, you say, Master, I have got this, this, and this question. Master, can you solve this problem for me? In India, instead of saying Master, we say Guru. Same thing. Master teaches you something. Master takes off your ignorance and puts some knowledge into your mind. Same way, a true Guru does that. He takes off all the ignorance, egos, from our mind and puts Knowledge. And peace he gives.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2, 1971
1970s

„Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Zdroj: Being Peace

„Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it.“

—  Ptahhotep Ancient Egyptian vizier

Maxim no .1.
Kontext: Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

„But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.“

—  Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966

Zdroj: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

„It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.“

—  Frank O'Hara, kniha Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Zdroj: Meditations in an Emergency

„Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.“

—  Sigmund Freud Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis 1856 - 1939

„One must forgive people their failure to understand. Good people are often guilty of faulty judgment.It is essential to be lenient with beginner’s mistakes.“

—  Helena Roerich Russian philosopher 1879 - 1955

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Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book One (The Call) (1924)

„If I shout:
Ideal, Ideal, Ideal
Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge,
Boomboom, Boomboom, Boomboom
I have recorded fairly accurately Progress, Law, Morals, and all the other magnificent qualities that various very intelligent people have discussed in so many books.“

—  Tristan Tzara Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist 1896 - 1963

As quoted in The Dada Almanac: Berlin 1920, (1983) ed. Richard Huelsenbeck, transl. Malcolm Green, p.127
1920s

„To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.“

—  Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

„… you don't realize whether or not you completely understand a topic until you are tasked to explain it to someone else. … That really challenges your understanding of a topic.“

—  Steven Novella American neurologist, skepticist 1964

SGU, Podcast #170, October 22nd, 2008 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/170
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s

„When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it’s easy to escape because you know what they’re going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it’s much more difficult.“

—  Pelé Brazilian association football player 1940

„The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Zdroj: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value

„No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.“

—  Assata Shakur American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army 1947

„All “inspired books,” teaching that what the supernatural commands is right, and right because commanded, and that what the supernatural prohibits is wrong, and wrong because prohibited, are absurdly unphilosophic.“

—  Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899

What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide? (1900)
Kontext: All “inspired books,” teaching that what the supernatural commands is right, and right because commanded, and that what the supernatural prohibits is wrong, and wrong because prohibited, are absurdly unphilosophic. And all “inspired books,” teaching that only those who obey the commands of the supernatural are, or can be, truly virtuous, and that unquestioning faith will be rewarded with eternal joy, are grossly immoral. Again I say: Intelligence is the only moral guide.