Quotes About Knowledge

Never have I been so much alone I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird alone upon the great river, the servant of the gods.

If the hunters think we do all things by chants and spells, they may believe so it does not hurt them. I was taught how to read in the old books and how to make the old writings that was hard and took a long time. My knowledge made me happy it was like a fire in my heart. Most of all, I liked to hear of the Old Days and the stories of the gods.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.

You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

Buda disse "Se sua boca estiver aberta, você não está aprendendo", e Calvin Coolidge disse, "Ninguém jamais foi despedido por escutar demais".

El conocimiento le da poder sólo si lo usa y hace algo con él.

it was off to the library, where people went before God invented the Internet and

Open them? Open them! My God, Felicia," he said, wrapping his right arm around the waist of the curly-haired waitress, "I think Professor Taylor has cracked the code!

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

Don't argue with an idiot, he'll only beat you with experience.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

With all thy getting, get understanding.

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try. —Sophocles

Unfortunately we live in a time in which only those who have themselves conducted science in some authorized manner are allowed to say anything about what science is and where it should go.

Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think—to what we have ideas or beliefs about—and we discard what we actually see.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.