Quotes About Knowledge

After all is mastered, the inner being may manifest, unimpeded by the vehicle's (i.e., the performer's) lack of knowledge. In this light, training oneself to the highest possible level may be regarded as an act of worship to that inner being.

A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

If you open a book and find that the writer is trying to impress you with his knowledge of long, unusual words or by his use of foreign phrases, close the book quickly with no sense of loss or of deficiency or of having missed anything; for the author has not learned how to write and perhaps never will, and there is no need for you to offer yourself as a sounding board for his incompetence.

We can say nothing but what hath been said.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

The most important competitiveness program of all is one which improves education in America. When some of our students actually have trouble locating America on a map of the world, it is time for us to map a new approach to education.

I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit by a make-up towel almost before he was out of diapers.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

An important step, far-reaching in its consequences, was taken when man first sought the cause of change and decay in things themselves and in the laws which appeared to govern things, rather than in powers and forces outside of and beyond them. When the question was first asked, What is it that persists amid all changes and that underlies every change? a new era was about to dawn in the history of man's wonder and his desire to know.

Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate.

The maxim, "An unexamined life is not worth living," is the priceless legacy of Socrates to the generations of men who have followed him upon this earth. The beings who have stood on humanity's summit are those, and only those, who have heard the voice of Socrates across the centuries. The others are a superior kind of cattle.

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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

The truth is in the pudding.

cayó en la trampa de la intuición que vuela a oscuras y da en el blanco antes de que el entendimiento pueda empezar a hacer lo suyo...

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds

Assim também os seres tornaram-se para mim lembranças imperecíveis na medida em que seus nomes sempre estiveram inscritos no livro do meu destino: conhecê-los equivalia a um relembrar.

In principle, the positive advantages of knowledge work specifically to the disadvantage of understanding, the judgment resulting in therefrom is likely to be something of a paradox.