Quotes About Knowledge

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und über-legenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Füruns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaftüberhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heisse im Gegenteil unsere Lösung: Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen. Dobbiamo sapere, sapremo.

How can I survive without a book to read?

But all our wisdom had been vanity. I could no longer feel superior to

It is an archetypal Sixties case history—the rejection of real solutions in favor of demands that are made with the knowledge they cannot be met.

If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in the universities. Government lent powerful reinforcement to the new concept of university regulations and funding that favored social justice over knowledge or merit.

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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

the biblical warning of Ecclesiastes: "In much knowledge is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yachting. Hell, Pete was hardly 'in the world' in the first place. That was just the problem. He knew more about 13th century Sufi Orders and the Ptolemaic Universe than the rivers and hills and sewers and mills in southwestern Washington.

Hmm. I'd never thought of that. Papa knew things I couldn't possibly know. He was in his thirties. He was old.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

PROVE RBS 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts," John Wooden once said.

Unbelievers resist truth because it brings to the surface their God-instilled knowledge of right and wrong, which they've buried in order to pursue their ungodly behavior without the annoyance of conscience (Romans 1:18-21). That's

Biblical heroes were regular people who had to learn the same things you and I have to learn–to drive out fear by increasing their knowledge of God, to shift their focus from their present fear to the eternal God, to replace what they didn't know about the future with what they did know about Him.

The Arabic knowledge of cryptography was fully set forth in the section on cryptology in the Subh al-a 'sha, an enormous, 14-volume encyclopedia

I've worked in the medical field for years as a nurse. I try to know the ins and outs of the health-care system, but nothing challenges a person as much as when his or her own family members become ill.

America was being replaced by a new source of wisdom

It's not rocket surgery!