6 Wendell Berry Quotes on Knowledge

Wendell Berry quotes on knowledge

8. Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

25. Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

26. Reductionism (ultimately, the empirical explanability of everything and a cornerstone of science), has uses that are appropriate, and it also can be used inappropriately. It is appropriately used as a way (one way) of understanding what is empirically known or empirically knowable. When it becomes merely an intellectual 'position' confronting what is not empirically known or knowable, then it becomes very quickly absurd, and also grossly desensitizing and false.

27. We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

50. In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

53. The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.