Quotes About Knowledge

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Still, he reminded himself, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Moe Berg. Until he's finished reading a paper, he considers it 'alive' and refuses to let anyone else touch it. When he's done, it's 'dead' and anybody can read it. Says he wants to integrate everything from various papers, get a picture—every day." "Then

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLAH NASRUDIN, 1200s AD

Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn't get good books out in New Mexico?

An amateur is anyone who hasn't learned how not to do it,' I said.

Of course, what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights.

The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.

what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights.

There is no believing in God. We either know God, or we do not.

Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it.

Feynman once said that if you understand quantum theory, you don't. I had no idea what Lisa was talking about.

Every guru you meet and every teacher, every prophet and every philosopher, should answer these two questions for you: What is an objective, universally acceptable definition of good and evil? And, What is the relationship between consciousness and matter? If he cannot answer these two questions, as I have done, you know that he has not passed the test.

There is no believing in God,' he declared, smiling again. 'We either know God, or we do not.

But first you need the theory, before you can make a profit from the practice.

We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Of course. You get everything from books.

A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness. The syndrome especially plagues anyone who lives behind a mask...A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I know what I know?

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.

The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.