Quotes About Knowledge

The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Visto despuès, podría parecer un modo extraño de empezar una guerra. Solo uno de los implicados sabía de lo que de verdad sucedía, y por casualidad

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.

that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

you also learn a lot of things, because he's a dazzlingly effective teacher.

substitute hope for expectations, belief for knowledge.

A wise man knows his limitations." And a bold one seizes opportunities.

supported by Dr. Paul Bellow—Temple University, Philadelphia

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.

No man controlled his fate, a knowledge that came late in life. You just tried to muddle along from one point to another, making as few mistakes as possible.

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness. —Albert Einstein