Quotes About Knowledge

Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many natural diseases, with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.

En la historia de los 3.5 mil millones de años de vida en la Tierra, somos la primera especie con la facultad de controlar nuestro destino. La perspectiva de hacerlo será excelente en la medida en que conozcamos nuestro pasado evolutivo.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

In addition to remembering things that one does not know how one remembers, one would also appear to remember things that one has no idea how one knew to begin with.

La tiranía de los ignorantes es insuperable y está asegurada por siempre jamás. Dijo Einstein.

We know this world intimately and that is its uncanniness. We cannot bear our knowledge.

Inside of us, but out of awareness, is the truth that "I already know everything I need to know.

Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.

The thing about sports, at least for guys, is that nobody ever defines the rules, not even in gym class. Asking what a penalty means is like asking who Jesus was. It's one of those things you're just supposed to know, and if you don't, there's something seriously wrong with you.

there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

Then there's all his disease prevention, the things that supposedly stave it off but that the drug companies don't want you knowing about.

The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.

They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.

The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates.

He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king