Quotes About Knowledge

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!" —Richard Feynman

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

1. Providing a unique interface between members of the organization 2. Delivering unique creativity 3. Managing a situation or organization of great complexity 4. Leading customers 5. Inspiring staff 6. Providing deep domain knowledge 7. Possessing a unique talent

people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!)

School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

The challenge lies in knowing your market and yourself well enough to see the truth.

omniscience

Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

A fool and his words are soon parted

Your luck is about to change, Abby.' His voice was low and velvety. 'I know a lot about you. I know how to get into your apartment. How to turn your cat into a noodle. The magnets on your fridge, the view from your window. Your perfume. I could find you blindfolded in a room full of strangers.' His fingers penetrated the veil of her hair, his forefinger stroking the back of her neck with controlled gentleness. 'And I learn fast. Give me ten minutes, and I'd know lots more.

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

And what of those who didn't know him? What happens, too, when all who knew him are dead, when people know only what they've been told? What truth will we be talking about, then?

That may be infidel wisdom, but it is wisdom all the same.

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

This book has no pretensions to infallibility, let alone to omniscience.

Cristo es en quien están escondidos todos los tesoros de la sabiduría y del conocimiento.

Familiarity breeds wrong conclusions, the Guild taught.