“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
“Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.”
Bk. III, l. 113
Hyperion: A Fragment (1819)
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Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Seventh Talk in Poona, 10 October 1948" http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=295&chid=4625&w=%22To+understand+oneself%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 481010; Vol. V, p. 128 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: To understand oneself, one needs enormous pliability, and that pliability is denied when we specialize in devotion, in action, in knowledge. There are no paths such as devotion, as action, as knowledge, and he who follows any of these paths separately as a specialist brings about his own destruction. That is, a man who is committed to a particular path, to a particular approach, is incapable of pliability, and that which is not pliable is broken. As a tree that is not pliable breaks in the storm, so a man who has specialized breaks down in moments of crisis.
“It is hardly possible God will let us succeed while such enormities are practiced.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Regarding slavery (1862), as quoted in Garfield: A Biography (1978), by Allan Peskin, p. 145
1860s
Context: We do not even inquire whether a black man is a rebel in arms, or not, if he is black, be he friend or foe, he is thought best kept at a distance. It is hardly possible God will let us succeed while such enormities are practiced.
“Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.”
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality
Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20030906163501/http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/general_info/addresses/Fred_Rogers_2001.htm
“I have no knowledge with me to make you a better singer than you are.”
K. L. Saigal (1904–1947) Indian actor
By Fayyaz khan in [Ranganathan Magadi, The Literary Works of Ranganathan Magadi, http://books.google.com/books?id=zU-xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA645, 1 February 2007, Ranganathan Magadi, 978-1-4116-7004-4, 645–]
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Atheist".
Rhymes for the Irreverent (1965)
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.