Quotes About Knowledge

Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them.

The great storehouse of truth is the word of God— the written word, the book of nature, and the book of experience in God's dealing with human life. Here are the treasures from which Christ's workers are to draw. In the search after truth they are to depend upon God, not upon human intelligences, the great men whose wisdom is foolishness with God. Through His own appointed channels the Lord will impart a knowledge of Himself to every seeker.

At every stage of development our life may be perfect; yet if God's purpose for us is fulfilled, there will be continual advancement. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime. As our opportunities multiply, our experience will enlarge, and {66} our knowledge increase. We shall become strong to bear responsibility, and our maturity will be in proportion to our privileges.

You never know anything until you've proved it right." "Nonsense. You can't order life mathematically," retorted the Judge. "Most of the time you 'know' things without factual evidence." "I'm Coleridge's 'thought-benighted skeptic,'" said Ellery unhappily. "I question everything. Sometimes I even question the results of my own thinking. My mental life is very involved.

is the peculiar gift of the truly great detective that he can apply to the inexorable rules of logic three catalyzers: an abnormal observation of events, a knowledge of the human mind and an insight into the human heart.

Had Walter ever read Bernard Shaw (he had not), he might have been pleased with the line, "When you have learned something, my dear, it often feels at first as if you had lost something.

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

What is proof?" asked Ellery. "It's merely the clothing of what we already know to be true. Anybody can prove anything, given sufficient will to believe.

When a man and woman were in love and spent their time kissing and babbling nonsense, they really didn't get to learn much about each other. They came to learn every line in each other's face, every trick of breathing and kissing and sighing – but nothing else, nothing real, nothing on the inside, about which knowledge was paramount.

He who would know right must first know wrong!

There's a reason for killing everyone, if you know them well enough.

scientific education has run so far ahead of artistic culture and general knowledge that adults with the mentality of children are playing with phenomenally powerful toys...

T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people and the highest imaginative powers.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.

You know I don't know a chestnut from a conker.' [...] 'A Chestnut is a conker

Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself.

Dr. Edmonds smiled and shrugged. "It's a bit harsh, perhaps, but Ezra Pound once said, 'Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheepherding.' I think he was right. I seem to have spent my life with the sheep.

Often we mistake knowledge for truth and forget that the sun shines on truth from different directions and casts a different shadow each time. When we look only at high noon, we miss a lot. If we mistake the shadow for truth itself, we delude ourselves. Our understanding must shine from ever-new directions.

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

No vivir es no sufrir y no saber