Quotes About Knowledge

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations—unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," writes Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

Art experts are said to have a "good eye." What they really have is a good brain. It is less that they spot things that others do not; it is that they know where to look;

A gulf was opening. Unless you were a professional, you were a mere dilettante or an "amateur." And what did this loaded word originally signify? "To love," derived from the French aimer. With the increasing specialization of knowledge and professionalization of everyday life, suddenly being delighted by something, or loving something, was seen as vaguely disreputable.

What makes a good judge? Confidence for one. An expert, in Shanteau's view, is someone good at convincing others he or she is an expert. Good judges may make small errors, but they will "generally avoid large mistakes." When they encounter exceptions, experts are good at making"single-case deviations in their decision patterns." Novices, meanwhile, tend to stick stubbornly to the rules, even when they are inappropriate.

Knowing where to look—and remembering what you have seen—is a hallmark of experience and expertise.

Take the most notes on the first day. That's when you see the most.

Experts are people who have the same opinions as other experts.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

In many ways Morse's ignorance acted to his advantage.

Consumers accessing the newly available books often discovered they were farsighted and needed glasses.

Just because you saw one piece of the puzzle doesn't mean you see the whole picture.

Most of what I know I forgot.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

There are no stupid questions except What's my name again?

We only fear what we don't know, if we knew everything we would have no fear.