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Zitate zum Thema Wissen / Knowledge

Zitate allgemein

Mein Volk geht zugrunde aus Mangel an Erkenntnis. Hosea 4, 6 (AT)

 

Jesus: Siehe, ich sende euch wie Schafe mitten unter die Wölfe; darum seid klug
wie die Schlangen
und ohne Falsch wie die Tauben.
Matthäus 10, 16 (NT)

 

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

 

Wissen
Wissen, 1896
Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington
Robert Lewis Reid (1862-1929) US-amerikanischer Impressionist

Empfehlungen

  • Das Entscheidende am Wissen ist, dass man es beherzigt und anwendet. Konfuzius (551-479 v. Chr.) chinesischer Weiser, Philosoph, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

 

  • Bemühe dich zu wissen, statt über etwas zu Bescheid zu wissen. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Quelle unbekannt

 

  • Willst du etwas wissen, so frage einen Erfahrenen und keinen Gelehrten. Asiatisches Sprichwort

 

Warnung

  • Wenn der Mensch zu viel weiß, wird das lebensgefährlich. Das haben nicht erst die Kernphysiker erkannt, das wusste schon die Mafia. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) US-amerikanischer Filmproduzent, Schauspieler, politischer Kandidat, Journalist, Essayist, Bühnenschriftsteller, Romanautor, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

 

Schlussfolgerungen

  • Was wir wissen ist ein Tropfen, was wir nicht wissen ein Ozean.
    Zugeschrieben Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) englischer Physiker, Mathematiker, Astronom, Alchemist, Philosoph, Naturforscher, Verwaltungsbeamter, Schriftsteller, alternative Zuschreibung als Weisheit der Sufis, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

 

  • Eigentlich weiß man nur, wenn man wenig weiß; mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, Max Hecker, Herausgeber, Aphorismen und Aufzeichnungen Maximen und Reflexionen, 1833, nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs, 1907; zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

 

 

  • Wissen beginnt mit der Erkenntnis der Unzuverlässigkeit der Wahrnehmungen, mit der Zerstörung von Täuschungen,
    mit der Ent-täuschung. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Soziologe, humanistischer Philosoph, Autor, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

 

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Welt-Wissen ⇔ Urwissen

  • Das Wissen, das der Beherrschung der Welt dient, entwickelt sich stetig weiter. Aber das Wissen eines Laotse ist eine Weisheit, die heute so gültig ist wie zu seiner Zeit. So gibt es ein Welt-Wissen, das sich im Fortschritt entwickelt, und ein Urwissen um das Wesen und seinen Weg, das zeitlos ist. Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896-1988) deutscher Diplomat, Psychotherapeut, Zen-Lehrer, Autor, Vom doppelten Ursprung des Menschen, 1973, Herder, Freiburg, 1. Januar 2005

 

Einsicht

  • Nur wenige wissen, wie viel man wissen muss, um zu wissen, wie wenig man weiß.
    Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) deutscher theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation, 1927, Physiknobelpreisträger, 1932, Autor; zitiert in: Denkschaft.de
  • Es ist keine Schande, nichts zu wissen, wohl aber, nichts lernen zu wollen.
    Platon (427-347 v. Chr.) vorchristlicher altgriechischer Philosoph, Begründer der abendländischen Philosophie, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

 

  • Denn nicht das viele Wissen sättigt und befriedigt die Seele, sondern das Innerlich-die-Dinge-Verspüren-und-Schmecken. Ignatius von Loyola (1491-1556) spanischer Ritter, Einsiedler, Theologe, kryptojüdischer Mitbegründer, erster
    Superior des Jesuitenordens, Geistliche Übungen [Ejercicios espirituales], 1522-1524, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

 

 

  • Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst." Walter Moers (*1957) deutscher Comiczeichner, Autor, Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher, S. 325, Piper Verlag, München, 2006

 

  • Wir sind naturwissenschaftlich auch irgendwie konditioniert. Wissenschaft ist nicht identisch mit Wissen. Das
    wird hier verwechselt.
      ➤ Wissenschaftlich ist ja nur eine Addition von Zahlenkolonnen, um damit den Nobelpreis bekommen zu können.
      ➤ Das Wissen ist etwas völlig anderes. Wissen kommt aus einer tiefen Kraft, auch aus der Intuition, wo Intellekt
    und Intuition zusammenkommen.
    Videointerview mit Roland R. Ropers (*1945) deutscher Religions- und Kulturphilosoph, Etymosoph, Wegbereiter der spirituellen Sprachforschung, Seminarleiter, Publizist, Buchautor, "Leben hat keinen Anfang und kein Ende", präsentiert von der deutschen
    online Plattform Thanatos.TV, Gastgeber Werner Huemer, österreichischer Talkshowmoderator, Autor, YouTube Film, Minute
    18:35, 23:53 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 31. Januar 2018

 

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Anstieg des Bewusstseinsniveaus der Menschheit:

Die moderne weltweit vernetzte elektronische Kommunikation trägt entscheidend zum kontinuierlichen Anstieg des Weltbewusstseins. Sowohl das Internet als auch das Weltbewusstsein schwingen auf dem Bewusstseinswert 205. [Stand Ende 2010)

  • Der Bewusstseinswert der Menschheit [BW 205] steigt gegenwärtig an. Das liegt auch am Internet [BW 205] und die hocheffektiven Kommunikationsmittel. Wir verfügen über außerordentliche Mittel der Wissensvermittlung. […] Nun drücken wir auf einen Knopf und Millionen von Menschen weltweit wissen unmittelbar darüber Bescheid.
    In der heutigen Welt ist es schwer, dumm zu sein. Gewiss, man muss sich heftig darum bemühen. […] Das Leben heutzutage ist wunderbar. Wenn man etwas nicht weiß, befragt man einfach den Computer, der die Information mitteilt. Sehr eindrucksvoll. Audiovortrag von Dr. David R. Hawkins Map of Consciousness, The Quest for Spiritual Truth, veranstaltet von der "Celebrate Your Life" Konferenz, Mishka Productions, Phoenix, Arizona, 6. November 2010

 

  • Auf der Suche nach immer mehr Wissen darf nie die Liebe verschwinden. Sie hat eine ungeheure Kraft, die physi-
    kalisch nicht zu messen ist. Wissen allein kann weder Krisen noch Kriege verhindern – das schafft nur die Liebe.
    Markolf Niemz (*1964) deutscher Biophysiker, Lucys Vermächtnis. Der Schlüssel zur Ewigkeit, S. 10, letzter Absatz, Drömer
    Knaur, 2. April 2009

 

  • Viel Wissen bedeutet noch nicht Verstand.
    Heraklit (535-475 v. Chr.) vorsokratischer altgriechischer Philosoph, zitiert in: Gute Zitate
  • Wo ist die Weisheit, die wir im Wissen verloren haben?
    Wo ist das Wissen, das wir in der Information verloren haben?
    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) US-amerikanisch-britischer Literaturkritiker, Vertreter der literarischen Moderne, Lyriker, Dramatiker, Bühnenschriftsteller, Literaturnobelpreisträger, 1948, Choruses from "The Rock", 1. Strophe, Auszug aus T. S. Eliot Collected
    Poems, 1909-1962
    , 1934

Humor

  • Man könnte meinen, nichts zu wissen, ist sehr angenehm. Ich bin meine Welt, lehrt uns der Philosoph Ludwig Wittgenstein. Mit anderen Worten: Was ich weiß, ist meine Welt. Je weniger ich weiß, umso dominanter bin ich in dieser Welt. Und umgekehrt: Je mehr ich weiß, umso mehr umgibt mich – und umso kleiner werde ich. Nichtwissen kann zu einer gewissen trügerischen Größe verhelfen. Interview mit Mathias Richling (*1953) deutscher Kabarettist,
    Parodist, Autor, Schauspieler, Ob ich noch ganz dicht bin? Ich bitte Sie!, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin
    Der Spiegel, Gastgeber Alexander Kühn und Markus Verbeet, 27. Mai 2011

General quotes

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10, 16 (NT)

 

Exclamation

  • Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" –
    or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel – "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually as-
    tonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.
    Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) US American futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic, editor, playwright, essayist, novelist,
    poet, author, Cosmic Trigger I. The Final Secret of the Illuminati, Hilaritas Press, 1977

 

Conclusion

 

Appeals

  • We have to be able to recognize that the attainment of knowledge is the highest labor of mankind. And that the attainment of knowledge is the basis of all philanthropy, the basis of all unselfishness, the basis of all cooperation,
    and the strengthening of all the constructive emotions of the human being.
    Therefore to do this, it must be a discipline. And all ancient people set aside certain disciplines for those who wan-
    ted to know the truth more than anything else. These they called the mystery schools. The greatest of all wisdom
    is the love of truth, the love of reality.
    We've had years of years of corrupted wisdom. We've head years of years of pseudo knowledge and we're now
    very much in need of the real thing.
    Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples. A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools, Philsophical Research Society, California, July 1996

 

Conclusions

  • The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) influential French Renaissance philosopher, politician, writer, Essays, book II, chapter 12, 1595

 

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Knowledge as personal property and status gain

  • We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. […] [W]e take what we know a little too seriously.
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (*1960) Lebanese-American scholar, statistician, former trader, risk analyst, philosophical essayist,
    The Black Swan. The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, 1st edition 17. April 2007

 

  • The greatest and most robust contributions to knowledge consist in removing what we think is wrong – subtractive epistemology. […]
    We know a lot more about what is wrong than what is right, phrased according to the fragile/robust classifi-
    cation, negative knowledge (what is wrong, what does not work) is more robust to error than positive know-
    ledge
    (what is right, what works). So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition – given that
    what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at
    least not easily. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (*1960) Lebanese-American scholar, statistician, former trader, risk analyst,
    philosophical essayist, summary Antifragile, ~ December 2012

 

  • It is better not to know so much, than to know so many things that aint so.
    [I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.]
    Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) US American humorist, lecturer, writer, Everybody's Friend [Josh Billing's Ency-
    clopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor], section "Affurisms: Sollum Thoughts", S. 286 / S. 430, American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1874; falsely attributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US American humorist

 

Insights

  • The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. In this sense I believe that the priest must become a teacher if he wishes to do justice to his lofty educa-
    tional mission. Albert Einstein, Ph.D. (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921, Ideas And Opinions, S. 41-49, Random House, 1954, excerpted article
    Science and Religion, first section taken from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary, 19. May 1939

 

  • Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
    Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese sage, social philosopher, sponsor of Confucianism, the Chinese state religion, Analects of Confucius [Lunyu] [Selected Sayings] (475 BC-220 AD)

 

  • Knowledge has three degrees – opinion, science, illumination.
    • The means or instrument of the first is sense;
    • of the second, dialectic;
    • of the third, intuition.
Plotinus (205-270) Greek philosopher, Enneads, "Ennead I", 1st chapter "What Is the Living Thing? What Is Man?", 270 AD,
cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

  • A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our hearts. […]
    We no longer want merely to believe; we want to know. Belief demands the acceptance of truths which we do not ful-
    ly comprehend. But things we do not fully comprehend are repugnant to the individual element in us, which wants to experience everything in the depths of its inner being. The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject
    to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Aus-
    trian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, mystic esotericist, founder of anthroposophy, author, fundamental philosophical work The Philosophy of Freedom, "Preface", S. 27-28, German original, 1894, revised ediition 1918

 

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Polarized opposites of learning: knowledge and wisdom

  • Knowledge is our asset to understand things as it is. […] 
    All knowledge is from the outside [out of books, listening, looking].
    Knowledge is essentially anchored in materialism. […]
    Knowledge for the most part is passing.
    Knowledge is valuable only to the degree that it can be ensouled, that it can be enriched to become meaningful, to stand for something that will help to enhance the general state of mankind.
"The Wisdom Series" lecture by Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, From Knowledge to Wisdom, YouTube film, minute 7:47 and minute 20:07, 58:41 minutes duration, posted 26. April 2013

 

  • Common sense is just natural honesty. It is an intuitive grasp of realities and it is probably the most powerful educating force that there is and yet we don’t dare to trust it because common sense may teach us to go in the
    opposite direction from which we are heading.
    "The Wisdom Series" lecture by Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason,
    author, From Knowledge to Wisdom, YouTube film, minute 27:21, 58:41 minutes duration, posted 26. April 2013

 

  • We have to be able to recognize that the attainment of knowledge is the highest labor of mankind. And that the
    attainment of knowledge is the basis of all philanthropy, the basis of all unselfishness, the basis of all cooperation,
    and the strengthening of all the constructive emotions of the human being. Therefore to do this, it must be a disci-
    pline. And all ancient people set aside certain disciplines for those who wanted to know the truth more than anything else. These they called the mystery schools. The greatest of all wisdom is the love of truth, the love of reality. We've had years of years of corrupted wisdom. We've had years of years of pseudo knowledge and we're now very much
    in need of the real thing.
    Lecture by Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, From Knowledge
    to Wisdom
    , "The Wisdom Series", YouTube film, minute 41:06, 58:41 minutes duration, posted 26. April 2013

 

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. For Imagination knowledge is limited, whereas imagination em-
    braces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921, Viereck interview "What Life Means to Einstein'', presented by the US American magazine The Saturday Evening Post, interviewer George Sylvester Viereck, S. 17, 26. October 1929

 

 

  • Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have undoubtedly certain finer fibers that enable us to
    perceive truths when logical deduction or any other willful effort of the brain is futile.
    Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Serbian US American physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer, inventor, cited in: article
    My Inventions, presented by the US American magazine The Electrical Experimenter, 1919

 

  • The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
    Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, pioneer of the scientific method,
    cited in: Quotefancy

 

  • Wisdom means having knowledge and knowing how and when to use it.
    Wisdom may include common sense; but it depends upon the uncommon sense of the divine in the present moment. Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, mythologist, ritualist, spokesman in the men's movement, author, Facebook comment, 12. November 2016

 

  • Thoughts [concepts] without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment, Critique of Pure Reason [Kritik der reinen Vernunft], A 51,
    B 75, 1st edition 1781, 2nd edition 1787

 

  • [T]o teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known,
    since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance. George Spencer-Brown
    (1923-2016) British polymath, educative mathematician, songwriter, poet, Laws of Form, Appendix 1, 1969

 

 

  • In the life of man,
    • his time is but a moment,
    • his being an incessant flux,
    • his senses a dim rushlight,
    • his body a prey of worms,
    • his soul an unquiet eddy,
    • his fortune dark,
    • and his fame doubtful.
In short,
  • all that is of the body is as coursing waters,
  • all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours;
  • life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land;
  • and after repute, oblivion.
Where, then, can man find the power to guide and guard his steps? In one thing and one alone: the love of knowledge. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Roman Emperor (161-180 AD), last of the Five Good Emperors, Stoic
philosopher, author, Meditations, first translation into English 1792, S. 33, Penguin Classics, 31. October 2006

 

  • The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing
    what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked
    at by every character of mind. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher, economist, On Liberty, 1859

 

  • Knowledge is about information, wisdom is about transformation.
    Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. (*1970) US American organizational behaviorist, lecturer on positive psychology and leadership, Harvard University, Boston, faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, writer, 3rd annual Positive Psychology course, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008, lecture 1 Positive Psychology, YouKu film, 77:03 minutes duration, posted October 2008

 

  • Knowing something is probably an obsolete idea. You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the
    point when you need to know it. It's the teacher's job to point young minds towards the right kind of question. A
    teacher doesn't need to give any answers, because answers are everywhere. And we know now from years of
    measurements that learners who find the answers for themselves retain it better than if they're told the answer.
    Sugata Mitra (*1952) Indian polymath, professor of educational technology, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, England, cited in: educational documentary The Future of Learning, presented by Ericsson – Networked Society, YouTube film, minute 3:50, 20:17 minutes duration, posted 19. October 2012, reposted 17. April 2021

 

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Tacit knowledge [vs. explicit knowledge] emerges in trust-based encounters with people.

  • Tacit knowledge is the most important knowledge in a rapidly changing world. That tacit knowledge is embedded in people. If you are not having unex-
    pected encounters with people you are not going to have unexpected encounters with this tacit knowledge. That's the power of the social networks as they start to focus on connecting people. […] Because it's so hard hard to express tacit knowledge I'm typically going to hold back […] unless there is some kind of trust-based relationship there. John Hagel III, US American consultant, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speaker and author on the intersection of business strategy and information technology, John Hagel – Real Time Web, part 2 of 3, presented by O'Reilly radar, host Joshua-Michéle Ross, minute 4:26 5:18 minutes duration, 24. October 2009

 

  • In Phase I [illusion] of the human experience: Knowledge is power.
    In Phase II [truth] of the human experience: Knowledge has no power. However, it is supportive.
    Robert Scheinfeld, US American bestselling author, reference: Scheinfield-Drilling-Tools, PDF, undated

 

  • Knowledge is power. – Scientia potentia est Latin aphorism, falsely attributed to Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, pioneer of the scientific method

 

  • Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012) Hungarian US-American professor emeritus of psychiatry, psychoanalyst, social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry and scientism, author, Words to the Wise. A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary, S. 139, Transaction Publishers, 2004

 

  • Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something – and when what they know is some-
    thing they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do – then most likely we
    stand in the presence of a vast falsehood. Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012) Hungarian US-American professor emeritus of psychiatry, psychoanalyst, social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry and scientism, author, Insanity. The Idea and Its Consequences, S. 11, First Syracuse University Press, 1997

 

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Intellectual humility – Wisdom paradox

  • The world is more complex than we can imagine, and every new point of view we encounter can enrich our understanding even if we don't embrace it entirely. But this comes with the risk of self-effacement and growing uncertainty. Imagine that you are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a vast forest, and that this forest represents your ignorance of the world. The clearing you stand in represents your knowledge. As one gains knowledge, the clearing expands and the forest of ignorance recedes. But as the clearing expands, so does its circumference and so the area of contact bet-
    ween knowledge and ignorance also grows, and our knowledge of the extent of our ignorance grows with it. So, pa-
    radoxically, the wiser we become, the less wise we feel. This is the wellspring of intellectual humility, the Socratic realization that the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know, and the more apparent it becomes that
    your own opinions are susceptible to fallibility. Article The Psychology of Progressive Hostility, presented by the Australian online magazine on science, technology, news, culture, and politics Quillette, Matthew Blackwell, 19. March 2018

 

 

  • Simkin and Roychowdhury conclude, using some elegant math, that only about 20 percent of scientists who cite an article have actually read that paper. This means that four out of five scientists never take the time to track down a publication they intend to use to buttress their arguments. By examining these mutations we can trace these errors backward in time, and understand how knowledge truly spread from scientist to scientist, instead of how it appeared
    to spread. Samuel Arbesman, US American complexity scientist, The Half-Life of Facts. Why Everything We Know Has an
    Expiration Date
    , Penguin Publishing Group, Current, reprint edition 27. August 2013

 

On the techniques used by tribal peoples from various places around the world
to store, retrieve and teach knowledge essential to survival.


 

  • There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
    There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know.
    But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.
    Donald Rumsfeld [Mr. Monsanto] (1932-1921) US American politician, businessman, 13th secretary of defense (1975-1977),
    21st secretary of defense (2001-2006), convicted war criminal, press briefing, 12. February 2002

Literary quotes

  • In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of 'world history' yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philologist, philosopher of nihilism, writer, Walter Kaufmann, translator, philosophical essay On Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense, 1873, cited in: The Portable Nietzsche, 1954, Chatto & Windus, new edition 25. March 1971, Viking Press, 1976, pocket book 27. January 1977, Penguin Classics, 1. December 1994

 

Poem

  • Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
    Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) US American British literary critic, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate in literature, 1948, pageant play The
    Rock
    , first performed in London, 28. May 1934; Choruses from "The Rock", excerpted from T. S. Eliot Collected Poems,
    1909-1962
    , 1963, HMH Books, 2017

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

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Truth is dependent on given parameters.

  • To be operational, truth must not simply be "true" but knowable; yet each level of truth is unknowable to the levels below it and has no validity beyond its own territory. Thus we can conclude that all levels of truth as we know it – within the dimension of ordinary human function – are examples of dependent truth, whose veracity is totally contingent on a given set of parameters. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 23
    "The Search for Truth", S. 283, Hay House, Februar 2002

 

 

  • A pathway that excludes awareness of karma must then rely heavily on faith or there would be no other spiritually integrous way of explaining the events of human life. The downside is that if faith or belief is lost, the disillusioned
    spirit is then vulnerable to either sinking into despair or latching onto a substitute for God. In the Western world,
    this is a very common occurrence and accounts for the fact that the intellect, in its expression as reason/logic/science,
    is now the main hope for the betterment of life. When this occurs, the mind and reason become deified and treated as
    though they were a religion. People become dedicated with great fervor to social and political causes and intellectual
    positionalities that are then elevated to become the new supposed saviors of mankind. That proclivity is characteristic
    of the consciousness levels of the 400s, which are rarely transcended. We see that ninety-six percent of the world's
    population never transcends consciousness level 499. Intellect, however, need not totally displace spirituality; thus,
    many people in the 400s, although they place great faith in the intellect, are simultaneously involved in religious or
    spiritual pursuits. The wise know that the intellect can take one only so far, and beyond that, faith and belief must
    substitute for knowledge. Dr. David R. Hawkins, I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 253-254, 2003

 

 

 

  • Question: Spiritual inquiry starts with acquired information derived from study etc. This then results in the obstacle of the mind's conclusion that "I know". How can valid information be held so as not to create the obstacle of presumption?
    Answer: To the seeker of the Truth of the inner pathway of non-duality, all learning is held as tentative until the innate truth reveals itself and is validated experientially. This process is potentiated by recontextualization. Classically, the recommended position from which to hold information is clarified by the phrase "So I have heard", which implies the holding back of transferring of the information into a belief system. That information has become an integrated 'knowingness' is indicated by a transformational change of perception consequent to full understanding. This is often the result of reflection and contemplation. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality,
    S. 67-68, 2007

 

 

  • Humility is of greater value than all factual accumulation. Unless one has completely and totally experienced the presence of God in its stunning, absolute Allness, it is safe to assume that one really knows nothing and that all accumulated so-called knowledge is really only tentative. Anything within that claims "I know" proves that it is false by that very statement, or else it would not make such a claim. Dr. David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 2
    "Nature of "Mind"", S. 40, quote 1, Hay House, August 2011

 

 

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Thinking – Knowing – Being

 

Links zum Thema Wissen / Knowledge

Literatur

Literature (engl.)

Externe Weblinks


External web links (engl.)


  • Dr. John Vervaeke, Canadian psychologist, University of Toronto, consciousness researcher, author

Four types of knowing juxtaposed to AQAL
1. Propositional knowing UR quadrant
2. Procedural knowing LR quadrant
3. Perspectival knowing UL quadrant
4. Participatory knowing LL quadrant


Audio- und Videolinks

Audio and video links (engl.)

  • Video TV interview with Jeremy Narby (*1959) Swiss-Canadian anthropologist, author of The Cosmic Serpent, Ayahuasca and Origins of Knowledge – Biospheric TV, presented by the US American web TV station Nosis TV, New York City, 12. April 2008,
    YouTube film, 6:36 minutes duration, posted 14. April 2008
  • Video interview with Thomas Sowell, Ph.D. (*1930) US American economist, social theorist, conservative and libertarian political philosopher, advocate of laissez-faire economics, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, author of Intellectuals and Society, January 2010, Intellectuals and Society, recorded by the event video production company Fora.tv, 36:32 minutes duration, aired 11. December 2009; see: article Exclusive: Thomas Sowell dissects intellectuals, presented by the publication The Orange County Register, Mark Landsbaum, 11. December 2009
  • Audio interview with Bill Joslin, US American private investigator, Meditation: Deconstructing Nonsense, episode #202, presented by the platform Logos Media, formerly Gnostic Media, founder and host Jan Irvin, US American ethnomycologist, independent researcher, political analyst, blogger, lecturer, author, via ivoox.com, 2:08:06 duration, recorded 16. June 2014, posted 20. June 2014

 

Interne Links

Englisch Wiki

Hawkins

 

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