Quotes About Knowledge

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. One

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

I CAN, of course, put myself into the sectarian scientist's attitude, and imagine vividly that the world of sensations and of scientific laws and objects may be all. But whenever I do this, I hear that inward monitor of which W. K. Clifford once wrote, whispering the word bosh! Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow scientific bounds.

Common sense is BETTER for one sphere of life, science for another, philosophic criticism for a third; but whether either be TRUER absolutely, Heaven only knows.

Believe truth! Shun error!—these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

a man who possesses the art of correct reading will… instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing… The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.*… Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose…

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My Google-fu is strong.

The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.

I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.

We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

This first book's for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

It's shocking how fast a whole city can be made to change. Trade, all the moments and minutiae of exchange: knowledge, services, goods, promises and extras. Our culture. The way we lived. All of those things had to be fixed.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.