Human Knowledge Quotes

I’m a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, ‘Here’s the world as it is perfectly,’ it’s, ‘Here’s the best we know so far and we’re always willing to be proven wrong.’

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge – which is mathematical, essentially – can have a playful visual element to it.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.