Quotes About Knowledge

The story's power, then, is twofold: It provides simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act).

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.

Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors." He knew that telling the mothers about nutrition wouldn't change their behavior. They'd have to practice it.

This is how concreteness helps us understand—it helps us construct higher, more abstract insights on the building blocks of our existing knowledge and perceptions. Abstraction demands some concrete foundation. Trying to teach an abstract principle without concrete foundations is like trying to start a house by building a roof in the air.

One of the worst things about knowing a lot, or having access to a lot of information, is that we're tempted to share it all.

avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies.

Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us.

Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

An expert is simply someone who has more experience than you.

That's not intuitive knowledge.

Knowledge does not change behavior

the fourth villain of decision making is overconfidence. People think they know more than they do about how the future will unfold.

There are, in fact, only two ways to beat the Curse of Knowledge reliably. The first is not to learn anything. The second is to take your ideas and transform them.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us. And it becomes difficult for us to share our knowledge with others, because we can't readily re-create our listeners' state of mind.

What she gained was the insight that comes from experience.

Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.