Quotes About Knowledge

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

I am part of all I have read.

I am part of all that I have read.

I am a part of all I have read

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

How odd to still be shocked by what one has always known.

Experience is a great teacher.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

worldview. "So?" "You knew that?

In Plato's theory the Forms, and in particular the Form of the Good, are eternal, extra-mental, realities. They are a very central structural element in the fabric of the world. But it is held also that just knowing them or 'seeing' them will not merely tell men what to do but will ensure that they do it, overruling any contrary inclinations.

Common sense, in this sense, is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

A]lthough the past is never completely knowable, it is more knowable than the future.

To be able to turn at will, in a book of your own, to those passages which count for you, is to have your wealth at instant command, and your books become a record of your intellectual adventures...

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, a white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.