Quotes About Knowledge

Ben yaln?zca kendi Evrenimle ilgili karar veririm,' diye sakince devam etti adam. 'Benim Evrenim gözlerim ve kulaklar?md?r. Bunun d???nda her ÅŸey söylentidir.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." This

You'd probably guessed that anyway. The Census report, like most such surveys, had cost an awful lot of money and told nobody anything they didn't already know

Surely the notion that great lumps of rock whirling in space knew something about your day that you didn't must take a bit of a knock from the fact that there was suddenly a new lump of rock out there that nobody had known about before.

Youth is the time of acquiring knowledge, and as you have the important charge laid upon you of instructing some of the rising generation, let me beg that you will leave nothing undone to make your pupils love the beauties of religion. Teach them that religion has nothing in it of a gloomy nature, for how can that be gloomy that leads to everlasting pleasures?4

It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...

He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.

I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable aspect of life—wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

People need history in order to know themselves

A 90 percent mortality rate is high enough: It does not just kill people; it annihilates societies; it destroys languages, religions, histories, and cultures. It chokes off the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, critique.

sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing—even if knowing proves to be very painful.

At what point in evolution did man acquire the knowledge of good and evil, and thus the capacity to be damned? In this light, the story of Adam and Eve takes on deeper significance. It is a parable of evolution.

What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston]

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

If this sounds like strange talk from a scientist—so be it. If there is one thing I have learned from a lifetime study of science, it is that the world is not a place we human beings will ever comprehend. Understand, yes; comprehend, no.

New York Public Library.

Denying the existence of things beyond our knowledge is as dangerous as promoting them.

the New York Public Library.

I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable.