Quotes About Knowledge

At most, he was introducing me to a body of knowledge I could draw from, like the writings of Joseph Campbell or the teaching of the Buddha or the lyrics of Jay-Z. After

Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

The writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy—only free.

You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.  

The Rape of the Sabines," by Da Bologna, which is one of the few classical paintings I can name. Sometimes I wonder about myself.

Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.

Computers are good, but they isolate the user and the information. People forget what they can't see.

Nelson DeMille

willful ignorance.

I honestly don't know how anyone functions in this society without a law degree.

I don't know much about auto mechanics, and Jack the Ripper didn't know much about anatomy.

There was a big banner hung at the entrance to the stacks which read: "Find Buried Treasure—Read Books." Excellent advice.

There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Sivilisaation ydin ovat tekstit, jotka sen kouluissa opetetaan, jotka sen oppilaat oppivat ja jotka muistetaan koettelemusten aikana.

young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have been taught isolated 'modules', not narratives, much less chronologies. They have been trained in the formulaic analysis of document excerpts, not in the key skill of reading widely and fast.

No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.

Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part of the West's winning formula: the third institutional innovation of private property rights, the rule of law and truly representative government?

Creo que tenemos la peculiar idea de que nuestro gobierno es perfecto sin saber real y verdaderamente cómo funciona».72

The more integrated the world's financial markets become, the greater the opportunities for financially knowledgeable people wherever they live - and the bigger the risk of downward mobility for the financially illiterate.

A project such as this depends heavily on the expertise and toil of archivists and librarians.

when they become informed, they become tired like you, jaded.