Quotes About Knowledge

One of the things that's so interesting when talking to minority founders specifically is that there is really a knowledge gap in understanding what the risk-reward profile is for doing a startup.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Science is a quest for understanding.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.