Quotes About Knowledge

These apparently low-level decisions are extremely important in a knowledge-based organization.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change. It must be organized for innovation.

But the order in which these sources will be discussed is not arbitrary. They are listed in descending order of reliability and predictability. For, contrary to almost universal belief, new knowledge – and especially new scientific knowledge – is not the most reliable or most predictable source of successful innovations. For all the visibility, glamour, and importance of science-based innovation, it is actually the least reliable and least predictable one.

Technology" does not necessarily mean "science and engineering." Techne, the Greek word from which "technology" derives, means, after all, "useful knowledge," or "organized skill," rather than "engineering.

The Enlightenment may be summoned up in two words: criticism and power.

But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.

Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he'd be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.

knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.

you get smarter the more you learn.

Solo sufre por lo que no sabe. Lo que sabe, le deja indiferente. Si sabe algo de algo, pero no puede llegar a saber qué es y cómo es, entonces eso le atrae y tiene ganas de saber más. Lo inalcanzable seduce.

Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.

Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.

Haven't you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise

Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.

As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints.

Third, it can mean deep, wondering reverence, or "awe" at something immeasurably superior. This is an emotion that is much rarer today than ever before in the history of the world, probably because modern life is so full of scientific knowledge and technological power over nature that we live in a dream of arrogant cleverness and a cocoon of predictable comforts.

Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;