Quotes About Knowledge

A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.

For the mass prevention of disease, mass education is a key weapon.

None is absolutely true.

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

Books are a form of magic—" the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, "—because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm.

You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell. -Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

I'm not sarcastic. I'm just intelligent beyond your understanding.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.

It is a mistake not to know any foreign language, and infinitely worse to have only a superficial knowledge of a foreign language.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

El conocimiento puede ser un freno. La ignorancia puede liberar. Saber cuándo saber y cuándo no saber es tan importante como un acero bien templado. Suzume-no-kumo, 1434

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.

Words can damage. Silence can heal. Knowing when to speak and when not to speak is the wisdom of sages. Knowledge can hinder. Ignorance can liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know is the wisdom of prophets. Unimpeded by words, silence, knowledge, or ignorance, a fluent blade cuts cleanly. This is the wisdom of warriors.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

Happy people live secure in the knowledge that the activities that bring them enjoyment in the present will also lead to a fulfilling future.

When you have a group of people who've had a different professional training, a different professional experience, they not only have a different knowledge base, but they have a different perspective on everything.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.