Jerry Garcia Quotes

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Education is understanding relationships.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.