Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect

Independent inquiry is need in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

education is what makes a man free!

If the sole source of one's knowledge or assurance of the truth of the Lord's work comes from reason, or logic, or persuasive argument,...it is not a testimony of the gospel

Now, the atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see us through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.

Knowledge and skills are different but linked – knowledge underpins the development of skills

Bloom's intention was to communicate the idea that knowledge is the foundation of skills development, not that it is more important to focus on teaching skills than knowledge

Higher-order thinking draws upon and pulls together smaller pieces of knowledge. The ability of a student to interpret, compare, contrast, differentiate, question, appraise, argue, justify, critique and design relies upon the breadth, depth and strength of the knowledge they are drawing upon and pulling together.

in order for students to develop skills of the type they are pushing for (such as creativity, problem-solving, teamwork and leadership), they must first have been taught knowledge.

Pre-existing knowledge is what allows students to think.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

I used to say that Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than my wife does. But that doesn't go far enough. Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

It's not that math can solve the world's problems. It's just that the world's problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.

We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.

but they'd have a cheap laptop and some big chunk of the Library, and they'd crouch under a culvert with it, and peck around on it and fly around in it and read stuff and annotate it and hypertext it, and then they'd come up with some pathetic, shattered, crank, loony, paranoid theory as to what the hell had happened to them and their planet…. It almost beat drugs for turning smart people into human wreckage.

She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn't understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»

Do you ever think about all the knowledge we pour into our brains and how soon they will turn into mush in the grave? I think about it.

If only they had told us that it was all metaphor, I might have learned;

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons, which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.