Quotes About Knowledge

Anything you cannot communicate without reading will be forgotten instantly.

There is a principal which is proof against all information, which is proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance; that principal is - Contempt prior to investigation !

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.

Science is organized knowledge.

As I said, humans know nothing at birth! We have to learn! But most of us do not know that! And, again, what we don't know, we don't know that we don't know!

A fellow does not know how far he can run until he has the hope of life in flight and the knowledge of death in being overtaken. That acts as a goad to urge him on when all other incentives fail.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.

Verily there is nothing new under the sun.

Over Descartian vortices you hover.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

There's nothing like history. I don't make mistakes today that I made many years ago, because I've already made them.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.