Quotes About Knowledge

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Only through understanding do we have any hope of harnessing the enormous potential that the world possesses.

couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys—but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly. —Richard Feynman

I wish I was older. And that I knew more than I do.

Enlightenment is man's exit from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one's intellect without the direction of another…. 'Sapere aude! (Dare to know!)' … 'Have the courage to make use of your own intellect!' is hence the motto of enlightenment" (Kant 1784/2006, 17).

Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?" "On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions.

and you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.' 'Good to know.

When you don't know everything you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it.

Q: What is the fruitiest subject at school? A: History, because it's full of dates.

Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little,

ICU seems to be staffed by good, smart young docs who think they know everything, and wise RN's who really do.

Break the rules only if you have mastered them.

Good decisions mad on bad data are just bad decisions you don't know about...yet.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

She had tempted them as she had tempted him, with ancient knowledge and the path to power. But that past should stay buried, and power given easily comes with a terrible price. If

An informed mind is not the same thing as an enflamed heart.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. (Ps. 19:1–3)

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. (2 Cor. 2:14)

Everything is natural, though if we do not know, or if we misread nature's laws, we falsely call it otherwise. Consider: Fifty years ago a man beholding the radio would have called it supernatural, yet the laws of physics governing the device were known as well then as now. But their application had not yet been learned.

the learned holy men knew more of sacred things than this wild woman of the camps who wore her hair at shoulder length and fared forth dight in hose and doublet like a man

My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.