In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
There’s only one thing ladies should be inserting in themselves, and that’s knowledge.
Nathan, Misfits
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Adolf Hitler
I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
Adolf Hitler
You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
Adolf Hitler
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
William Golding
If you’re smart, you’ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there’ll always be somebody who’s never read a book who’ll know twice what you know.
David Duchovny
I want you to know that when you are having a bad day, you are inspiring someone just by being.
Gillian Anderson
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud
I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.
Kristen Stewart