Quotes About Knowledge

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.

My best subjects were chemistry and math.

It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.

I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.

I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.

I spent almost no time studying categories like geography and sports, even though they came up frequently on 'Jeopardy,' because I'm already strong in those subjects.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.

Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.