Quotes About Knowledge

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

The dull mind rises to the truth through material

The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even "personal tastes and appetites should be subject to surveillance and review."4 It was knowledge, intrusive knowledge, that provided the Republic with its surest foundations.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

If you stop training and learning you start sinking. Nobody can float: You're either rising or sinking. It's been this way for a thousand years. The only difference is that you can rise, or you'll sink, a whole lot faster now.

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Mark Twain said a century ago, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so.

No matter how high you rise in your career, no matter how much expertise you gain, you still need to keep your knowledge and your insights refreshed. Otherwise, you may develop a false confidence in what you already "know" that might lead you to the wrong decision.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so" Mark Twain

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill.'" —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

The studies, Jeremy, I said. The studies, the studies, the studies.

What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned that soldiers seldom die. I learned that everybody's free. And that's what the teacher said to me. That's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.