Quotes About Knowledge

Nor does linguistics need the nominal blessing of science. It is some sort of systematic, truth-seeking, knowledge-making enterprise, and as long as it brings home the epistemic bacon by turning up results about language, the label isn't terribly important. Etymology is helpful in this regard: science is a descendant of a Latin word for knowledge, and it is only the knowledge that matters.

Apprentices work furiously to learn the rules; journeymen proudly perfect the rules; but masters forget the rules.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Nisam kupio posljednji svezak Svjetske enciklopedije. S obzirom da sam izabran za jednog od autora, sada vidim da je Wikipedija posve dobar izvor informacija jer znam kakva je kontrola kvalitete u pravim enciklopedijama. Ali ponekad kad s djecom do?em u knjižnicu ne mogu odoljeti da ne otvorim slovo »V« i pokažem im. To je napisao njihov tata.

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.

the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.

And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

In fact, growing up, I thought there were two types of families: 1) Those who need a dictionary to get through dinner. 2) Those who don't. We were no. 1. Most every night, we'd end up consulting the dictionary, which we kept on a shelf just six steps from the table. "If you have a question," my folks would say, "then find the answer.

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.

Common sense is the lie codified and vulgarized.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

One of the releases of chemicals triggering good feelings is at that moment of triumph when we learn something or master a task.

Do not seek what you do not wish to find.

A scholar who thinks s/he knows everything is a false scholar.

Curiosity is an engine of success.

***(C)(P) I WILL SAY THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY:-I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THE CONTEXT AND MEANINGS BEHIND EVERY REGGAE SONGS MADE BY BOB MARLEY, PETER , BUNNY, AND OTHERS FROM OUR TRENCH TOWN REGGAE FAMILY.NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY THAT.I SHARED MANY OF MY LYRICAL TEACHINGS WITH THEM AND LIVED THE EXPERIENCES. WHO WOULD DARE TO CONTEST ME?

22:70]  Do you not realize that GOD knows everything in the heavens and everything on earth? All this is recorded in a record. This is easy for GOD to do.

My past experiences have proven to me that there are people who don't want you to know that they do not know. So they hide it through distraction in the form of criticizing other individuals. There are people who hold ill will toward others who have done the work and achieved the things that they have not, dreamers who never put forth the effort required to attain them in their own lives. My book is not for them. It's for you who realize that the thorns are worth the attainment of the rose. The

I'm saying it to your face. Just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix one. Eating ham ain't the same as raising a pig.