Quotes About Knowledge

The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

Ninguém a quem valha a pena conhecer pode ser propriamente conhecido. Ninguém que valha a pena possuir pode ser realmente possuído.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed...

It is a childish realization, I admit—no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but after all, we were children.

Probabilities are relative to background information.

Antes de crear el mundo, Dios conocía todos los mundos lógicamente posibles que podía crear, poblados por todos los individuos lógicamente posibles que podía crear

I looked at the jury, raised an eyebrow. I work on that in the mirror at home, the one raised eyebrow. It should be a course of its own in law school. You sort of have to relax one half of your face, contract the muscles on the other, all while keeping a sweetly sardonic expression. You do it wrong, you look like you just ate bad jalapeño. You do it right, it denotes skepticism, it denotes shared knowledge, it was as good as shouting to the jury.

But isn't it better to know the truth, no matter how vile?" He lifted up his head and cackled. "Whoever told you such nonsense? One kind lie is worth a thousand truths.

There are truths, I know with all certainty, that I will never grasp, but that doesn't make them any less true.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't you ecstatic?

Aa our knawledge is hauflin; aa our prophesíein is hauflin: but whan the perfyte is comed, the onperfyte will be by wi. In my bairn days, I hed the speech o a bairn, the thochts o a bairn, the mind o a bairn, but nou at I am grown manmuckle, I am through wi aathing bairnlie… In smaa: there is three things bides for ey: faith, howp, luve. But the grytest o the three is luve.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.

Colonel Shy—ably assisted by a few newspaper reporters and my own big mouth—had revealed both the depths of my own ignorance and the huge gap in forensic knowledge. Personally, I was embarrassed; scientifically, I was intrigued; above all, I was determined to do something about it. From

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

El creyente más humilde puede ver más sobre sus rodillas que el incrédulo más culto de puntillas. Consideremos

A man will be known by his books.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.