Quotes About Knowledge

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Rave reviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others

I don't like the word 'education' because it is such an extraordinary abstraction. I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.' So

David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity. It's a remarkable argument for the power of knowledge—as not just a human capability but as a force that shapes the universe.

Steven Pinker: anything. He's one of the clearest thinkers and communicators of our time. Among many other things, he convinced me that I could never understand myself without understanding how humans evolved.

We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

Todo lo comúnmente aceptado como cierto es falso.» OSCAR WILDE, La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

no tienes paciencia para leer algo, no tengas la arrogancia de comentarlo.»

Our next reads are Stretch by Scott Sonenshein and Lead Yourself First by Kethledge and Erwin.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."—Bertrand Russell

Many of the one-liners teach volumes.

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu sector o área de conocimiento?

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

Truth is that which has predictive power.

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away.

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." Peter Blois in Theology of the Reformers

Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever leaving our armchairs?

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.