Quotes About Knowledge

Los seres humanos que mueren sin haber conocido su enfermedad, sus enfermedades mortales...

Cristo, la Escritura, vuestros propios corazones y las artimañas de Satanás, son las cuatro cosas principales que deben ser estudiadas y escudriñadas en primer lugar. Si alguien abandona el estudio de estas cosas, no puede estar seguro aquí, ni ser feliz en el futuro.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Thomas C. Foster

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves.

And there is escaping things the knowledge of which makes one unhappy. If truth is what we know and are aware of, in the most engrossing fiction we escape truth. Whatever else it is, drama is forgetfulness. We can forget and forget that we are forgetting. It is temporary mind control. If memories are pain, fiction is anesthesia.

The Internet is at once a gold mine of solid content and a hellhole of misinformation.

we must listen to the very limits of human knowledge and only when this utterly breaks down should we refer things to God."45 William

Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be an irresistible product of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

That was one of the reasons why Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center decided to work with Watson—to make widely available the level of knowledge of the hospital's best oncologists to the world at large.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

Try to learn something about everything

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Only a wall—but what a wall!

People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

But time is short, and science is infinite...

How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way, and you did not help me!

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

Thus, neither having the clue to the other's secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other's character and moods without attempting to pry into each other's history.

Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!

I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?—Job xii. 3.