Quotes About Knowledge

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I drive across or the nurse who administers our vaccines or the teacher who teaches my kids was a total nerd.

only bookworms get excited over other bookworms

If I had one son and one daughter and could only educate one of them, I would educate my daughter. You know why? A girl without an education has no power; she is always at the mercy of others.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

People, nearly all of them, don't know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know. My sister thought she knew. Knew the human race. . . . Knowledge doesn't know. But that's something few understand.

Indeed, Wiener was the first information-age forebear to consider information, not as a tangible good to be bought and sold, but as "content"—whether that content was an ephemeral commodity like the news, a body of scientific knowledge, or the living substance of everyday experience human beings extracted from the world around them. To

While not averse to commercial enterprise, he viewed the exploitation of information to the detriment of those human values as a threat to the wealth of nations, to their security, and to their very survival, and he called for the "unhampered exchange" of knowledge and information in every form.

Unlike a computer or a brain, Wiener observed, the channels of communication in society were formed, not from wires or neural nets, but from the exchange of information between individuals using language and nonverbal communication, from learning and group communication in families and larger social organizations, and from the exchange of knowledge and experience among people of different cultures. Drawing

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.

Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide

So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through knowledge - a knowledge of Spiritual Law.

Know the Truth and the Truth gives you a sense of freedom, soon then comes the actual freedom on the external.

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

We learn a lot from our own mistakes, experience worth.

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.

il muso detto shiran-kao , faccia di chi non sa nulla.

We cannot wonder enough at the facility with which men resign themselves to continue ignorant of what it is most important that they should know; and we may be certain that such ignorance is incorrigible in those who venture to proclaim this axiom: There are no absolute principles.

The academy is, perhaps unsurprisingly, full of people who think that they are smart enough to run the lives of others. They are not. Hence the subtitle of this volume: "What Your Professors Won't Tell You.

À 20 ans, je croyais tout savoir de la vie. À 30 ans, j'ai appris que je ne savais rien. Je venais de passer dix années à apprendre tout ce qu'il me faudrait, par la suite, désapprendre.

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.