Quotes About Knowledge

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do

My motto is "my principal activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri—either children or books, both information that carries through the centuries.

I have two ways of learning from history: from the past, by reading the elders; and from the future, thanks to my Monte Carlo toy.

Tengo la esperanza de que algún día la ciencia y quienes toman las decisiones redescubran lo que los antiguos siempre supieron, concretamente que la moneda de mayor valor es el respeto.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

we are simply not wise enough to be trusted with knowledge.

it is hard to disentangle ethics on one hand, from knowledge and competence on the other ...

You argue with her to no avail (she is supposed to be the "expert").

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.

There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.

The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations

Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it.

in spite of our progress and the growth in knowledge, or perhaps because of such progress and growth, the future will be increasingly less predictable

Black Swan logic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right. All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

to how deep the author wants to go into a topic

and news shared with millions gives you no real advantage.