Indirect Knowledge Quotes

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

From what I hear, he’s a good fellow.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.