Quotes About Knowledge

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

I would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.

It's possible to let technology absorb what we know and then re-express it in intricate mechanisms - parts and circuit boards and software objects - mechanisms we can use but do not understand in crucial ways. This not-knowing is fine while everything works as we expected.

Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they're already smart.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.