Quotes About Knowledge

Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.

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It appears that the charts must have originated with a people unknown; that they were passed on, perhaps by the Minoans (the Sea Kings of ancient Crete) and the Phoenicians, who were for a thousand years and more the greatest sailors of the ancient world. We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria and that compilations of them were made by the greographers who worked there.

The Greek geographers of Alexandria, when they prepared their world map using the circumference of Eratosthenes, had in front of them source maps that had been drawn without the Eratosthenian error, that is, apparently without any discernible error at all. We shall see further evidence of this, evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

Innocence and ignorance are sisters.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

God save me from him who studies but one book.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.

I'm not a nerd — I'm an intellectual bad-ass.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Certainly not quite oddly enough, a very great many prophets, cranks, busybodies, snobs, opportunists, simple folks (and other nonartists) do not know that they do not know precisely what the word Apocalypse means. By God, a good dictionary ought to get up on its hind legs and tell them, sometime.