Quotes About Knowledge

Once he asked a colleague if he had ever heard of a musician named Carlos San-tain-a; Brin had been asked to introduce him at a concert. "Sergey," the Googler said, "everyone knows who Carlos Santana is." "I'll just say he needs no introduction," said Brin.)

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.

a?a cum grânele noi ies din p?mânturile vechi, la fel ?i "toat? aceast? nou? ?tiin??" pe care oamenii o înva?? apare tot din b?trânele hâr?oage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al p?s?rilor

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

We typically don't know enough individually to form knowledgeable, nuanced views about new technologies and scientific developments. We simply have no choice but to adopt the positions of those we trust. Our attitudes and those of the people around us thus become mutually reinforcing. And the fact that we have a strong opinion makes us think that there must be a firm basis for our opinion, so we think we know a lot, more than in fact we do.

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding

Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance profoundly channels the course we take in life . . . People fail to reach their potential as professionals, lovers, parents, and people simply because they are not aware of the possible.

We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don't know what we don't know.

The secret to our success is that we live in a world in which knowledge is all around us. It is in the things we make, in our bodies and workspaces, and in other people. We live in a community of knowledge.

No one individual had one one-thousandth of the knowledge necessary to fully understand it all.

To achieve complete understanding necessitates understanding increasingly more and more, and the combination of everything you need to understand to achieve complete understanding quickly becomes more than you can bear without, well, exploding.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.