Quotes About Knowledge

Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn't the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don't do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.

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Knowledge is a dynamic cultural and historical process, not some timeless product waiting to be discovered "out there".

That was when I knew him before, you understand, when he could just pull stuff like that out of his, uh, hat.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

David A. Adler

The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things—of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil—seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what's worth knowing.

After the resurrection of Christ, the Septuagint became the Bible of the Christian church and a powerful instrument for conveying to the whole world the knowledge of the true God that had already been given to the Jews.

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

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.

I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?' She giggled. 'Do you not even know that?' she said. 'Do you?' 'It's a proven fact, common knowledge. They're where your wings were, and where they'll grow again.

All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just some new way of looking at things. But once it's out there in the world, it becomes whatever the world wants it to be. Germ warfare, nuclear holocaust, or a cure for cancer.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

I do like a man who knows where the bread comes from.

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

know anything about, and so far, the

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don't know about and don't understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.

Freedom goes with suffering. Truth, wisdom, and knowledge of reality go with suffering.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who need certitude, and those who quest for understanding.