Quotes About Knowledge

What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

Because I want to know how it works.

Science is itself an exercise in prediction.

Remember, the brain is in a dark quiet box with no knowledge of anything other than the time-flowing patterns on its input fibers.

We have learned a tremendous amount of knowledge and facts about the brain, but we have little understanding of how the whole thing works.

the Thousand Brains Theory: knowledge of any particular item is distributed among thousands of complementary models.

The difficult part of knowledge is not stating a fact, but representing that fact in a useful way.

we needed to understand what "understanding

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami.

This was all foreign turf to me, ideas that were in the syllabus for Advanced Marriage, a postgraduate course in the area of human studies, and I knew almost nothing about it. But

My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I learned

There comes a point in every conversation where at least one of the people involved has to know what is being talked about, and I decided that point had arrived.

who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere

There is no true substitute for good education.

There's no fool like an old fool.

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

Remember, people hassle you in all sorts of different ways. Don't assume they're right and you're wrong just because they know something you don't. The question is: Do you need to know it to do a better job? Then learn it. If not, it's a distraction and to hell with it.

Everyone stared at me now. I'd studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing texts. Mostly for the fun of it, but the subject came in useful sometimes. Ellis

The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents

there are defining moments in one's life when you learn a lot about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

We all have to be knowledgeable about something, and Cheddar is my specialty.

During the next few days, Harry learnt