Quotes About Knowledge

I actually went to university.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.