Quotes About Knowledge

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

I did get a degree in special education.

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

If I have a fever, I take a Crocin but my wife calls a doctor, my mother calls a doctor. Similarly, investing is not something which a doctor or a lawyer or Internet specialist can really understand. Take professional advice, plan.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.