“Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 72).
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
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Gospel of Luke
“The terrible burden of having nothing to do.”
Le pénible fardeau de n'avoir rien à faire.
Epistle 11
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
“By reluctance to criticize some of it, we may help to destroy it all.”
Preface to the First Edition
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Context: If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, the wish to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men may make great mistakes; and as the book tries to show, some of the greatest leaders of the past supported the perennial attack on freedom and reason. Their influence, too rarely challenged, continues to mislead those on whose defence civilization depends, and to divide them. The responsibility of this tragic and possibly fatal division becomes ours if we hesitate to be outspoken in our criticism of what admittedly is a part of our intellectual heritage. By reluctance to criticize some of it, we may help to destroy it all.
