Knowledge is paralyzing. What to do?
These quotes on knowledge may help.
Or if you are a person of action and can't take the risk of being slowed down by metaknowledge, skip it and do something active instead.
I recommend cleaning the kitchen if that is not already done. That's what I am going to do.
Then I will plant some peas.
That's all I know.
Quotes on Knowledge
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
― Criss Jami,
“Humour can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
― G.K. Chesterton
