Quotes About Knowledge

for the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning...

If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.

the surest kind of knowledge is what you construct yourself.

you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

Just as with fire and knives, spirits must always be treated with respect and caution. A combination of common sense and knowing how to work with them ensures safety.

The actual meaning of the word Witch is linked to "wisdom" and is the same root as "to have wit" and "to know." It comes from the Anglo-Saxon wicce (f) or wicca (m) meaning "wise one," witches being both female and male. On

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

He had left off being a perfectionist then, when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean, not membership in Onwentsia, or the Lake Forest Golf and Country Club, or the Lawyers' Club, not power, or knowledge, or goodness - not anything - cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.

knowing something is not believing...

Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.

Not tears of happiness, but rather tears of that sudden sadness that comes at those rare moments of perfect joy that are fully realized at the exact instant at which they are being experienced. Such knowledge always carries in it a premonition of loss, a premonition which needs no reason or explanation.

MOST PEOPLE have no knowledge or understanding of the psychological changes of captivity. Social judgment of chronically traumatized people therefore tends to be extremely harsh.

Those who attempt to describe the atrocities that they have witnessed also risk their own credibility. To speak publicly about one's knowledge of atrocities is to invite the stigma that attaches to victims…. Denial, repression and dissociation operate on a Social, as well as an individual level.

Most people don't even understand the present. Why should they understand glimpses of the future?

There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals

I'm convinced that there is something we once knew which has been lost to us in the evolutionary process. Sometimes we get glimpses of it." Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

Chega um tempo em que não nos é permitido não saber.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.