Quotes About Knowledge

Meras creencias lo que el más acreditado conoce y custodia

No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Çok ÅŸey bilmek kavramay? öÄŸretmez.

What is not yet known those blinded by faith can never learn.

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.

What is not yet known those blinded by bad faith can never learn.

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

If science is to encompass these objects and phenomena in which human purpose as well as natural law are embodied, it must have means for relating these two disparate components. The character of these means and their implications for certain areas of knowledge economics, psychology, and design in particular are the central concern of this book.

Sir William Osler, the first Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School and a unique teacher and clinician, said: "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate… [people] not to take medicine." You should not assume a physician is inadequate if he does not give a prescription at the end of your visit.

Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, remarked: "One meets with many men who have been fine students, and have stood high in their classes, who have great knowledge of medicine but very little wisdom in application. They have mastered the science, and have failed in the understanding of the human being.

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Those who cannot adopt or compete in the dominant status order — closely associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the mastery of complex cultural performances — make opposition to this order a badge of pride and recognition. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is an indicator of this process. People make themselves believe in them, because it induces them into an alternative world of status and rank.

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?

A library is thought in cold storage.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Science is organised knowledge.