Quotes About Knowledge

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and '90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts? Because until then, it hadn't seemed like a serious problem in America.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which we truly know of it. Since that part which conceptually we know fully turns out to be so beautiful, the real world of which we know so little should also be beautiful. Life may be miserable for seventy years and happy for a million years: the short period of misery may even be necessary for the whole.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

Experience alone does not create knowledge

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

The advantage of wisdom is that you always can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Die Welt zerfällt in Groß- und Kleingedrucktes.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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