Quotes About Knowledge

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

This life is a process of learning.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

Premio Nobel de Economía de 2005, «por haber ampliado nuestros conocimientos sobre el conflicto y la cooperación a través de la gamificación analítica».

gurús» (del sánscrito, palabra que designa al maestro que puede iluminar el lugar donde solo había oscuridad).

una idea concreta de inteligencia práctica».

Tricks with language allowed the foolish and ignorant to appear wise and knowledgeable

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

finding a book is no guarantee that you will understand what it means unless there is also someone there who read it to you when you were very young and who may, indeed, have it memorized." (p 154)

So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the government we have. The question isn't what we know. The question is what we're capable of knowing, and doing, if we have the right incentives, and the right opportunity.

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives.

The same concern about the coming of the Antichrist lay behind much of what Roger Bacon—also a Franciscan friar—wrote to the pope about sixty years earlier: the church will need mathematical, scientific, technological, medical, and other knowledge to resist and survive the assault of the Antichrist.

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.