„The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.“
— Mortimer J. Adler American philosopher and educator 1902 - 2001
Источник: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows“
Контексте: A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows. In Yoga, "I" consciousness is called asmita klesha. It is classified as an affliction and a hindrance to attaining higher consciousness. There is always a chance for a person to break out of the cycle, but there is no such chance for an animal unless it incarnates as a human and develops "I" consciousness. (p.36-7)
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„No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.“
— Paulo Coelho, книга The Alchemist
Источник: The Alchemist (1988), p. 158.
„Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.“
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
Attributed
„A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.“
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
1940s–present
„If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense.“
— Imre Kertész Hungarian writer 1929 - 2016
Источник: Detective Story (2008), p. 69.
Контексте: If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense. A person usually fights against a power in order to gain power himself. Or else because the power in question is threatening his life.
„An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258
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„Hitler was a very peculiar person wasn't he? He was another dominator you know — Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that.“
— Peter Cook British architect 1937 - 1995
"The World Domination League" (1964)
E. L. Wisty
Контексте: Hitler was a very peculiar person wasn't he? He was another dominator you know — Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that. … Of course Mrs Hitler was a charming woman, wasn't she? She's still alive, you know. I saw her down the Edgware Road only the other day. She'd just popped into the chemist's to buy something, and I saw her sign the cheque "Mrs Hitler" so I knew it was she. I tried to go up and talk to her, but she slipped away into the crowd. I was hoping she'd be able to come to the next meeting of the World Domination League. Not many people do.
„When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?“
— Carson McCullers, книга The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Источник: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
„I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.“
— Arthur Miller playwright from the United States 1915 - 2005
Paris Review (Summer 1966)
Контексте: Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
„What animal magnetism drew thee and me together—I know not.“
— Charlotte Brontë, книга The Professor
Источник: The Professor (1857), Ch. I
„I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.“
— Romain Rolland French author 1866 - 1944
As quoted in The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Guterman
„Personally, I have always felt the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter — he's got to just know.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
As quoted in Ether and me; or "Just relax." (1973)
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„Lastly, what is history for? This is perhaps a harder question than the others; a man who answers it will have to reflect rather more widely than a man who answers the three we have answered already. He must reflect not only on historical thinking but on other things as well, because to say that something is `for' something implies a distinction between A and B, where A is good for something and B is that for which something is good. But I will suggest an answer, and express the opinion that no historian would reject it, although the further questions to which it gives rise are numerous and difficult.
My answer is that history is `for' human self-knowledge. It is generally thought to be of importance to man that he should know himself: where knowing himself means knowing not his merely personal peculiarities, the things that distinguish him from other men, but his nature as man. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a man; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of man you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the man you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what he can do until he tries, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.“
— R. G. Collingwood British historian and philosopher 1889 - 1943
Источник: The Idea of History (1946), p. 10
„We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.“
— William Kingdon Clifford English mathematician and philosopher 1845 - 1879
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Limits Of Inference
Контексте: p>We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know. We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is presumption to doubt and to investigate, there it is worse than presumption to believe.</p
„The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.“
— John Bodkin Adams general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer 1899 - 1983
When asked in 1956 why in February 1954 he had sat with patient Clara Neil Miller for forty minutes with her "bed clothes all off... and over the foot rail of the bed, her night gown up around her chest and the window in the room open top and bottom", while Adams read to her from the Bible.
„Let's be upfront about this. I know Bernie is very sick, but just because a person is sick doesn't necessarily mean that he is pure of heart in all things“
— Tony Abbott Australian politician 1957
Describing terminally-ill asbestos disease campaigner Bernie Banton Quoted in http://www.theage.com.au/news/federalelection2007news/abbott-adamant-over-banton-stunt/2007/10/31/1193618926085.html "Abbott Adamant Over Banton Stunt", The Age, October 31, 2007.
2007
„Simon's obviously very smart. But he's not the smartest person I know.“
— Carrie Underwood American country music singer 1983
Esquire, January 2010, p. 78