Quotes About Knowledge

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creerle. Entiendo cómo te sientes.

Montaigne said three hundred years ago, 'Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

Es un hecho —afirmó Sarah—. Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creer.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

Among human beings, vocabulary was considered the best measure of intelligence.)

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

After all, the trouble with what the scientists said was that they were always saying something different. This year one idea, next year something else. Scientific opinion was ever changing

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds—and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything

En la sociedad de la información, nadie piensa. Esperábamos desterrar el papel pero, en realidad, desterramos el pensamiento.

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

You create many [dinosaurs] in a very short time, never learn anything about them, yet you expect them to do your bidding, because you made them and you therefore think you own them; you forget that they are alive, they have an intelligence of their own, and they may not do your bidding, and you forget how little you know about them....

You know why the scientists would try to do that? It's because they want to do research, of course. That's all they ever want to do, is research. Not to accomplish anything. Not to make any progress. Just do research. Well, they have a surprise coming to them.

God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of whatever kind -- these are right and proper ideals for life.

Corny as it sounds, I believe that unless we try to familiarize ourselves with the best that human beings have thought and accomplished, we doom ourselves to be little more than mindless consumer-wraiths, docile sheep waiting to be shorn by corporation or government, sad and confused dwellers on the threshold of a palace we never enter.

people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

That Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

I believe that our business can provide us with a mirror to see ourselves as we are, to see what we truly know and what we don't know, to see ourselves honestly, directly, and immediately.