Quotes About Knowledge

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: Almost no one knows about it.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.

We master the technique of our jobs.

That was what I did at night. I read all the stuff that you're supposed to read in college but never do, or if you do, you're not paying attention. I read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Turgenev. I read Cervantes and Flaubert and Stendhal and Knut Hamsun, and I read every American except Faulkner.

Soak up what you need to fill in the gaps. Keep working.

I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.

I read War and Peace, I read Madame Bovary, I read Fathers and Sons, The Red and the Black, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov. I read Hunger, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote. I read Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Nexus, Plexus, Quiet Days in Clichy. I read Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. My friend Paul is a character in this one.

I read everything you're supposed to read in high school and college but never do, or if you do, you're so psyched to read to the test that you don't learn a damn thing. Am I learning anything now? Fuck no. The books pass through my consciousness like sunlight through glass. I don't care. They're in my cells now. I love them. Their impress has etched itself in some occult recess of my heart.

The amateur hoards his knowledge and his reinforcement. He believes that if he shares what he possesses with others, he will lose it. The professional is happy to teach. He will gladly lend a hand or deliver a swift kick.

What music is to the spirit, reading is to the mind

A Escrita é, no entanto, muito mais do que 'a pintura da voz' como queria Voltaire. Tornou-se a suprema ferramenta do conhecimento humano (ciência), agente cultural da sociedade (literatura), meio de expressão democrática e informação popular (a imprensa) e uma forma de arte em si (caligrafia), para mencionar apenas algumas manifestações.

As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.

The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.

On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

We will always need to ask God for His wisdom and counsel about everything, because He is the only one who knows the whole truth

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5

Knowing the truth liberates us from all possibility of deception and illuminates any darkness in our life.

Lord, I turn to You for all wisdom, direction, and guidance. Where I must seek advice from another person, help me to know when that person speaks from godly knowledge and when this is not the case. Help me to always test the input of others with Your Word. I want You to be my ultimate source for all knowledge.