Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
You will not be able to distinguish truth from falsehood until you learn to feel yourself.
Let me quote a little more from Max Weber. Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. Technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Keeping that knowledge increases their superiority.
It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
— What are you thinking about?
— I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read.
— You know things that can't be taught.
— I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know.
— Know what?
— Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from.
— The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath.
— I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.
— What areyou doing?
— Selenium. That could be the answer. I'm looking at the Periodic Table on your T-shirt and I see this pattern. Take offyour shirt. I'll show you.
— Yes!
— No, I don't think so.
— We are a carbon based life-form. We move down here, and you've found our poison: arsenic. But the aliens are nitrogen based, right? You make the same move down and over... and where do you find yourself?
— Selenium.
— Selenium. Could be as lethal to them as arsenic is to us.
— And with their metabolic rates, it'll kill them fast.
— Selenium. How much do we need?
— Five hundred gallons could do it, should do it.
— Five hundred gallons? Um, I hate to be a buzzkill, but where are we gonna get that at 2:00 a.m.?
— No problem.
— Yeah, we can get that. Head & Shoulders.
— The dandruff shampoo?
— Yeah, that's the stuff. The active ingredient is selenium sulfide.
— How do you know that? You don't know anything.
— Haven't you noticed how shiny and fake-free our hair is?
— Okay, this is the best idea we got. Let's give it a shot. Come on. Let's do it!
— Yeah! We'll get the troops together. We're getting shampoo!
— I've got the vehicle.
— Good! Donalds, you just got your A's.
When you're learning, what you want to do is study something. Study it hard by focusing intently. Then take a break or at least change your focus to something different for awhile. During this time of seeming relaxation, your brain's diffuse mode has a chance to work away in the background and help you out with your conceptual understanding. Your, your neural mortar in some sense has a chance to dry. If you don't do this, if instead, you learn by cramming, your knowledge base will look more like this, all in a jumble with everything confused, a poor foundation.
Until the game’s over, you never know what might happen!