Quotes About Knowledge

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

I mean, what makes her think I don't know about dry-humping? I could dry-hump my way through Cuba if I felt like it. She can't even spell 'pregnant'.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.

I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing it down. You know, art - the more you know about it, the more you enjoy it.

I don't read much about the Canadian Football League.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

What can be shown, cannot be said.

I trust my brother and my dad. They know my capabilities and my skills. If they tell me to do something, they know best.

You must know what you are capable of.

Everybody in middle-distance running knows each other, and we all know what we are capable of.