Quotes About Knowledge

What determines the level of self-esteem is what the individual does, within the context of his or her knowledge and values.

What is needed and demanded today, in the age of the knowledge worker, is not robotic obedience but persons who can think.

It is not what "they" think; it is what I know. What I know is more important to me than a mistaken belief in someone else's mind.

The demand today is for people with knowledge.

Today one needs an education. One needs formal training. Or else one needs to be extraordinarily gifted at self-education. And one needs to understand that the process can never stop, because new knowledge begins to make one's training obsolete almost as soon as one completes it.

what we see is no longer "management" and "workers" but an integration of specialists. Each of these specialists has knowledge and expertise not possessed by the others in the organization.

Knowledge is more widely disseminated and freely available than ever before, making it much easier for people to operate at higher levels of consciousness in their work and consequently to be more productive.

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...

The bookworm of great libraries.

Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.

That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.

A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.

She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts.

there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

Aylmer had long laid aside in unwilling recognition of the truth—against which all seekers sooner or later stumble—that our great creative Mother, while she amuses us with apparently working in the broadest sunshine, is yet severely careful to keep her own secrets, and, in spite of her pretended openness, shows us nothing but results.

a bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas... - Earth's Holocaust, Hawthorne

En cuanto a Rappaccini, se dice de él que cuida más a la ciencia que a la humanidad, y yo, que le conozco bien, puedo responder de la verdad que tal afirmación.

But as for Rappaccini, it is said of him — and I, who know the man well, can answer for its truth — that he cares infinitely more for science than for mankind. His patients are interesting to him only as subjects for some new experiment. He would sacrifice human life, his own among the rest, or whatever else was dearest to him, for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the great heap of his accumulated knowledge.

in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.

For a brief spell, he would try to avoid all war news and think only of science and history and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. It would not be easy.

facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.