Quotes About Knowledge

A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.

I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst. It is not as if, had you asked me, I would have claimed to fathom the thoughts and sentiments of two whose station in life was so far distant from mine. But in my own unexamined way I had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

After a little time, we began to learn some of what they had known: that a compound of mullein and rue, sweet cicely and mustard oil makes an excellent syrup for quieting a cough; that boiled willow bark eases aches and fevers; that betony, bruised for a green plaster, speeds mending of wounds and scrapes.

had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

The wishes and desires of the powerful can be fickle things. I knew this. But I knew it in that deep place where one hides knowledge that is inconvenient, or too painful to admit, even to oneself.

I suppose the answer was that if something can be known, I can't stand not knowing it.

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

My life, this is," she said. "I know every mark on this and how it came there. I know the heft of every blessed knife in here. And now I'm to turn me back and walk away with nothing.

But he's not known for taking on apprentices.

few dozen" wise, unselfish sages,

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Zijn kennis van vreemde talen was nihil. Eigenlijk moest hij dood.

An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

Einstein's rule is a general way to realize that less can be more in an uncertain world.

The quest for certainty is the biggest obstacle to becoming risk savvy. While there are things we can know, we must also be able to recognize when we cannot know something.

Risk literacy is the basic knowledge required to deal with a modern technological society. The breakneck speed of technological innovation will make risk literacy as indispensable in the twenty-first century as reading and writing were in previous centuries. Without it, you jeopardize your health and money, or may be manipulated into unrealistic fears and hopes.

Wenn man mündige Bürger haben will, muss man ihnen drei Dinge beibringen: Lesen, Schreiben und – statistisches Denken.

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.

The old forget, the young don't know.