Knowing

Famous quotes containing the word knowing:

“The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready—even eager—to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo- scholarship which actually destroys its object.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)