Quotes About Knowledge

the scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi showed, much of the most valuable knowledge we can possess and use isn't like that; it is "tacit knowledge." We feel tacit knowledge. And when we try to put it into words, the words never fully capture it. As Polanyi wrote, "We can know more than we can tell.

The critical next step is to stop thinking of black swans the way most people do. They are not bolt-from-the-blue freak accidents that are impossible to understand or prevent. They can be studied. And mitigated.

The value of experienced teams cannot be overstated, yet it is routinely disregarded.

Infrastructure is the great space shrinker, and power, wealth and status increasingly belong to those who know how to shrink space, or know how to benefit from space being shrunk.

Men, as they acquire experience, lose the faculties that might enable them to turn it to account: it is not so with times: the stock of wisdom acquired by ages is a stock transmitted through a vast number of generations, from men in the perfection of their faculties to others also in the perfection of their faculties.

Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quella verità, tra quella verità e l'intelligenza del creato avrebbe optato per la prima.

La sintesi è possibile solo quando c'è la conoscenza, altrimenti diventa superficialità.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

My knowledge tends to lead me to the conclusion that miracles do exist, that a man's life can be completely transformed. Perhaps fate is just an accident, but the important point is that it is beyond anybody's control. It happens to them. It can still happen to me. It is possible that my fate is still to be decided.

There is, between our body and other bodies, an arrangement like that of the pieces of glass that compose a kaleidoscopic picture. Our activity goes from an arrangement to a re-arrangement, each time no doubt giving the kaleidoscope a new shake, but not interesting itself in the shake, and seeing only the new picture. Our knowledge of the operation of nature must be exactly symmetrical, therefore, with the interest we take in our own operation.

To know how to deal with the present and to guard against worry and fear--that is true wisdom and the ultimate aim of philosophy.

To one who regards things with a philosophical eye, and hath a soul capable of being delighted with the sense that truth and knowledge prevail among men, it must be a grateful reflection to think that the sublimest truths, which among the heathens only here and there one of brighter parts and more leisure than ordinary could attain to, are now grown familiar to the meanest inhabitants of these nations.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

We only understand what we are prepared to understand

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.

As science integrates the in-depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of inquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.