Quotes About Knowledge

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

The key to the problem is an empowered, knowledgeable patient, but as we shall see, extra information need not lead to empowerment. Whether

There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don't know enough to offer good advice.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

We need to be brave enough to dissect a frog now and then, to see what's inside.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

In his famous Letters and Papers from Prison, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: . . . how wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

The God of the Bible was Lord over everything, over every scientific discovery. He was Lord over not just what we did not know, but over what we knew and were discovering through science

Miracles are not in contradiction to nature. They are only in contradiction with what we know of nature.—SAINT AUGUSTINE

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too. —HEINRICH HEINE

You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

You can't take learning to the bank; you can't spend it or invest it.

it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,

You can't take learning to the bank; you can't spend it or invest it. You cannot give it to customers and cannot return it to limited partners.

Florence is an old soul—I'm sure she has been here on earth many times before this incarnation.

Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is skilled attention.

The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he thinks he knows.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called a royal road to its own particular field of knowledge. —FELIX KLEIN

Information changes situations.