Quotes About Knowledge

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

When we are confronted with the knowledge that our life isn't under our control, we have a choice. We can continue in denial and self-righteousness, or we can face the fact that we have been blind to some important issues. If we become willing to be led into recovery and into a whole new way of life, we will find true power.

Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. (2 Peter 1:5b–7)

Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

that there are no biological forms left to discover. He means, rather, that we have good reason to conclude that such discoveries will not alter the largely discontinuous pattern that has emerged.

All this suggested to me that there are important distinctions to be made when talking about information in DNA. In the first place, it's important to distinguish information defined as "a piece of knowledge known by a person" from information defined as "a sequence of characters or arrangements of something that produce a specific effect." Whereas the first of these two definitions of information doesn't apply to DNA, the

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.

The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.

times of such commotion as the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch, there is great danger of fatal extremes. The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them…very naturally leads to a contempt and disregard for all authority.

Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.

Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.