Quotes About Knowledge

Spontaneity, personal initiative, free choice - these ideals of Western society are fairy tales invented for people who don't want to admit they know better.

Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away

the advantage of some ignorance; it leaves some room for creativity. But sometimes it feels like ignorance is endemic in this industry-that people are unaware of things and wheels are constantly being reinvented with pointy corners.

I think one thing that's really important is to not be afraid of your ignorance. If you don't understand how something works, ask someone who does. A lot of people are skittish about that. And that doesn't help anybody. Not knowing something doesn't mean you're dumb – it just means you don't know it yet.

Documenting is an art as fine as programming. It's rare I find documentation at the level I like. Usually it's much, much finer-grained than need be. It contains a bunch of irrelevancies and dangling references that assume knowledge not there. Documenting is very, very hard; it's time-consuming. To do it right, you've got to do it like programming. You've got to deconstruct it, put it together in nice ways, rewrite it when it's wrong. People don't do that.

When it comes to our educational systems, perhaps the most important question that we can ask is this: What is the purpose of education? Is it to impart knowledge and facts or is it to nurture curiosity, effortful problem solving, and the capacity for lifelong learning?

students are taught that knowledge is static and complete, and they become experts at consuming knowledge rather than producing knowledge." This is unacceptable.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

the spirit of Heidegger's dictum that thinking and thanking belong together, so do reading and collecting. The professional reader, the scholar, or the pandit becomes the agent of a novel form of concentration: indeed, he not only collects, he turns himself into a collection, a person filled up with knowledge that moves to and fro between internal and external memories.

He distinguished three basic types of knowledge: educational knowledge, knowledge of salvation, and knowledge of domination, corresponding to the three main anthropologically deducible complexes of interest in education, salvation, and domination.

contrast, ancient European access to the experiential world was preformed by grammatical dressage; in fact, in this literacy zone the actual intellectual material offered by the world was formatted according to letter, syllable, line, page, paragraph, and chapter.

Ich glaube, das ist es, was ich an Büchern immer gemocht habe. Dass sie unabänderlich sind. Man muss sie gar nicht lesen. Es reicht, sie zu besitzen, sie in die Hand zu nehmen und zu wissen, dass sie immer so bleiben, wie sie sind.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

You can tell a man is clever by his answers – you can tell a man is wise by his questions.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.

There has been too much destruction of knowledge simply because someone else disagrees with it. In a civilised world, there is room for all knowledge and the truth will eventually emerge triumphant over prejudice. If we do not believe that, then there is no hope for us. We might as well resort to living as wild animals.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

Is not a book of more value than metal?' asked Cumscrad. 'It is the fruit of a person's brain and contains knowledge and ideas; it has power greater than gold because knowledge and ideas can change people.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it cant be done.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

I love history. It's so old." - Attributed to Peter Ustinov.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.