Quotes About Knowledge

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

There's more than one way to be smart. People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—

In short: if I'm wrong, I promise that I'll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

teach a woman to phish…")

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

Woden preserve me from the terminally stupid.

Who chooses what we know or what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself.

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I accidentally knew all the words.

get more stupider.

To be a leader you must be a reader. Read, lead, succeed. Cynthia Brian

How can something get you thinking the wrong way, if you know how to think the right way?' Sammy asked.

If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord?

The air in the library rooms was silent, full of ideas, the thinking of the writers of books, the thinking of the readers of books.

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say 'if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,' we might believe them; but were they to cry 'if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,' we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Así es como somos. Utilizamos la fuerza de voluntad para eliminar de la aceptación de nuestra consciencia el conocimiento intuitivo.

y entró en esa buena sociedad de gente del gobierno que no está a la cabeza, pero que son, o pudieran ser, el verdadero poder oculto de la nación: gente que sabe de qué habla, o habla como si lo supiera.

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.