Quotes About Knowledge

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.

Books from the ancients, or the yogis and shamans, are your time capsules from yourselves to yourselves…

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

I like that you're confident but not overconfident," Duncan said. "Smart people are the ones who know how stupid they are.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (and because it's compiled, fact-checked, and updated strictly by anybody with an Internet connection, it is the most detailed and reliable source of all human knowledge)

Danielson was a talking head in his fifties

I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I've forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

But McNamara knew more than the actual facts—he also knew the hypothetical ones. When you talked with him, you realized that he had already played out in his head the relevant details for every conceivable option and scenario.

After trying out a number of ways to reduce inequalities and failing, I was gradually forced to conclude that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.

If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.

But, even if the quantum state gives us only probabilities for what we observe, once we get a result, there is something that is definite, because afterward you know exactly what the state is. It is the state corresponding to the result obtained by the measurement. Suppose we measure an electron's momentum, and get the result that the electron is moving north with momentum 17 (in some units). Then, just after the measurement we know that the

quantum state is only a representation of that knowledge? How does a system know a particular interaction has taken place with a detector, so that it should then, and only then, obey Rule 2? What happens if we combine the original system and the detector into a larger system? Does Rule 1 then apply to the whole system? These questions

When someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know.

Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other.

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

Mass movements are always so unhip. That's what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from the very beginning that with mass appeal comes all those tedious folks who need to be told what to think. Hip can never be a mass movement. And culturally, the gay liberation movement and all the rest of the movements were the beginning of political correctness, which was just fascism to us. Real fascism. More rules.