Quotes About Knowledge

As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.

These people seek to control the knowledge so that they can profit from it. Profit from the apocalypse itself.

Demasiados eruditos piensan que la investigación es solo una búsqueda cerebral. Si no hacemos nada con el conocimiento que obtenemos, entonces hemos desperdiciado nuestros estudios. Los libros pueden almacenar información mejor que nosotros..., lo que nosotros hacemos, y los libros no pueden, es interpretar. Así que si no se van a extraer conclusiones, bien puedes dejar la información en los textos. -Jasnah Kholin-

Unknowing ignorance is preferred to informed stupidity.

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth, to seek it out. —From The Way of Kings, postscript

Elend smiled, recognizing the reference. Trentison's Supplying in Scale. A few years earlier, he would have agreed with Yomen, and the two would probably have spent the afternoon discussing the philosophy of leadership in Yomen's palace. However, Elend had learned things in the last few years that he simply hadn't been able to get form his studies.

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

The world has always been like this, even if I didn't know it.

information is worthless unless we use it to make judgments.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough." "And what would be the right word, then?" "I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?

It was nice to be reminded that, for all their differences, there were occasional things that she and Jasnah shared. She just wished that ignorance weren't at the top of the list.

Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.

This is genius, Brightness. Truly." She smiled. They liked to say that, and she appreciated the sentiment. The truth was, she merely knew how to harness the genius of others—as she was hoping to harness the storm.

La experiencia en sí es la gran maestra, y a ella debéis recurrir sin intermediarios.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more.

Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.

Intuition is not a single way of knowing—it's our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we've developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith, and reason.

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.