Quotes About Knowledge

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

Women are marvellous at plodding through the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.

Reality cannot be experienced with the intellect, because the intellect can only think thoughts about reality

The truth is within all of us. We all come from the same source. We are part of it. And therefore, we have knowledge of it. When we awaken, and we all will eventually, then we will know what we have always known. We are one.

True understanding is understanding the illusion

You don't know what you don't know. Until you do, and then you will never be the same

There's no such thing as coincidence. Only a lack of knowledge.

Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.

Sure a boxer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; I once met a Headmaster called Meekin on a plane and he said:if boxers all owned doctorates then teachers would need to do a whole lot less fighting."

people need to be reminded as much as they need to be informed.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

The rule is that when we know the answer, we do not ask the question.

Philosophy is a mental leap, between approach and identification with wisdom.

The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

I would go one step further and say that the willingness to challenge professional economists - and other experts - should be the foundation of democracy. When you think about it, if all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having a democracy at all? Unless we want our societies to be run by a body of self-elected experts, we all have to learn economics and challenge professional economists

The view that the world has now entered a new era of the 'knowledge economy', in which making things does not confer much value, is based upon a fundamental misreading of history. We have always lived in a knowledge economy.

However great an economic theory ma be, it is specific to its time and space. To apply it fruitfully, we require a good knowledge of the technological and institutional forces that characterize the particular markets, industries and countries that we are trying to analyze with the help of the theory.

very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information

A. RONCAGLIA The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought

Rumsfeld opined: 'There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.' I

Knowing is not enough.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

The professor, a wise and kind Jesuit, said, "An open mind is an attitude. It means you don't think you already know everything.

Culture needs a community of social relationships over which the knowledge flows. At