Quotes About Knowledge

Xin Sun seemed to know remarkably little about how to do experiments. If I were to think of someone in the lab who might be a Chinese spy, it would be him. Not Mei Li.

our social needs for intimacy, belonging, and acceptance. Mate preferences for status can explain our esteem needs for recognition, fame, and glory. Mate preferences for intelligence, knowledge, skills, and moral virtues can explain our cognitive needs to learn, discover, and create, and our self-actualization needs to fulfill our potential (for example, to display the highest possible mate value given our genetic quality).

The lesson is clear: neither science nor data are democratic. Science is meritocratic and not all data are equal.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

I shouldn't need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn't think to stop it?

The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Nowadays we already have books about books and descriptions of descriptions.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in our youth with metaphysics and religion we can easily proceed along a series of rational conclusions that will lead us to the immortality of the soul. Not every other path will lead to this, at least not quite so easily.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?