Quotes About Knowledge

Socrate, ossia colui che, morendo, ha sostenuto che c'è un nesso istitutivo tra sapere, virtù e felicità.

The flu you can get over, search for the truth has no cure.

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

You went to school, Lee said. I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach you things you didn't care about. Dates and math and trivia about dead presidents. They didn't teach persuasion. Your ability to persuade is the single most important determinant of your quality of life, and they didn't cover that at all. Well, we do. And we're looking for students with natural aptitude.

it's much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can't spot the difference.

Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'.

But Oxford never pretended to be strong in mathematics.

Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.

I think the human mind isn't comfortable with mysteries. We're always looking for answers to the unexplained. And if an answer can't come from facts, we'll try to cobble one together from old stories.

Knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

I'm open to any discovery, as long as it's based on hard, physical evidence. Facts are supposed to banish monsters… She sighs. …not invite them i

knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.

you dig and dig until you strike the absolute truth.

At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound beings simply because they don't know what electricity is.

Manchmal ging er mir auf die Nerven wie alle Künstler, die sich für höhere oder tiefere Wesen halten, bloss weil sie nicht wissen, was Elektrizität ist.

We talked about constellations—the usual thing, when two people haven't yet discovered which one knows less about the stars than the other; the rest is romantic fantasy, which I can't bear.

Why do we go on listening to economic prophets when they plainly know no more about the future than you or I?

THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE: When we have expertise or knowledge in a given area, we have difficulty understanding what the problem would look like to those who lack such expertise or knowledge.4 Thus, teachers often lack empathy for students who lack their knowledge.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

Cuando el general George Patton contraatacó al mariscal de campo Rommel durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se dice que en el fragor de la batalla Patton gritó: «¡Leí tu libro, Rommel! ¡Leí tu libro!». Patton había estudiado La infantería al ataque, el libro de Rommel. Conocía la estrategia del jefe alemán y planeó sus posiciones conforme a ella2. Nosotros también conocemos las tácticas del diablo.

2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.