Knowledge and Ignorance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
bring my birth to light · discovering the whole truth · full knowledge · ignorance · intelligence · know who you are · knowledge · revealed · seeing nothing, knowing nothing · understanding
in the texts
Oedipus Tyrannus
The movement from uncertain reports and ignorance to unbearable self-knowledge about birth, crime, and kinship.
Yet have hope, until at least you have gained full knowledge from the one who saw the deed.
Come, here, here to the hands of the one whose mother was your own, the hands that have made your father’s once bright eyes to be such orbs as these—his, who seeing nothing, knowing nothing, became your father by her from whom he was born!
It must not happen that, with such clues in my grasp, I fail to bring my birth to light.
Economics
Practical understanding is generally accessible in husbandry and strategy, though command still varies with intelligence.
It is not knowledge nor want of knowledge on the part of farmers that causes one to thrive while another is needy.
It is not the farmers reputed to have made some clever discovery in agriculture who differ in fortune from others:
there are some branches of strategy in which one is better or worse than another, not because he differs in intelligence, but in point of carefulness, undoubtedly.