Quotes About Knowledge

And Dunbar points out that in our ultrasocial species, success is largely a matter of playing the social game well. It's not what you know, it's who you know.

rationalist to describe anyone who believes that reasoning is the most important and reliable way to obtain moral knowledge.

Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

And now that we all have access to search engines on our cell phones, we can call up a team of supportive scientists for almost any conclusion twenty-four hours a day. Whatever you want to believe about the causes of global warming or whether a fetus can feel pain, just Google your belief. You'll find partisan websites summarizing and sometimes distorting relevant scientific studies. Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Those who can, do; those who do and understand, teach.

A single conversation with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

When you know what something is, you have power over it.

It's exciting how much there is to learn; several lifetime's worth, really.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

that's the mark of an intellectual, in my view, becoming cognizant of one's own insignificance in relation to the accumulated mass of human knowledge.

You probably won't understand this precisely now, but knowledge and experience not only shapes people—it can also wall them off. Once they believe they have figured it all out, acquired a worldview and come to trust their choices to an overarching meta-narrative, anything which questions that set of operating premises is perceived as a nuisance—if not an outright threat.

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

Moc ti to nejde. Je vid?t, že jsi proležel celý život v knihách. U nás i rabín umí postavit d?m.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. —Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

roughly translated 2 from the Hmong language of the Laotian mountain people, which observes: "If I know it then I can hunt it; if I do not know it then it can hunt me.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

The cold reality is that much of the valuable information relevant to our intellectual, personal, and academic development is locked within the covers of books in the code of written language.

Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine