Objective Knowledge Quotes

#1. The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

Ira Progoff

#2. I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

Moby

#3. Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and
therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Donna J. Haraway

#5. The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings.

Martin Amis

#6. The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.

Galileo Galilei

#7. Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Paul Watzlawick

#8. libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

Fulton J. Sheen

#9. Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

Harley Earl

#11. Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Albert Einstein

#12. Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Martin Rees

#14. The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

Werner Heisenberg

#15. Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness.

Emily Bronte

#16. The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.

George R R Martin

#17. The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.

George Henry Lewes

#18. Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.

Idries Shah

#19. The fact that such objective and enduring knowledge exists (and moreover, belongs to all of us) is nothing short of a miracle. It suggests that mathematical concepts exist in a world separate from the physical and mental worlds

Edward Frenkel

#20. Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

Karl Popper

#21. Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known - whether this is God or one's self.

David G. Benner

#22. The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.

Jose Contreras

#23. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

Veronica Roth

#24. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Stefan Molyneux

#25. Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

David Deutsch

#26. If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Alan W. Watts

#27. He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

Jon Krakauer

#28. Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.

William Fleming

#29. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#30. Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Idries Shah

#31. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Richard Pascale

#32. During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#33. Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see
everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

D.H. Lawrence

#34. You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

#35. If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.

Dale Carnegie

#36. Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

Elie Wiesel

#37. All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Kelly Braffet

#38. Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'

Peter Dinklage

#39. We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world ... If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

Mark Rothko

#40. If you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.

Karen Marie Moning