Quotes About Knowledge

The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..

If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.

all modern science grew from [juju] and still is nothing more than juju with diagrams and longer words.

I think there is nothing more completely beautiful and more beautifully complete than walls lined with well-arranged books.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.