Quotes About Knowledge

Adev?rata filosofie nu confer? putere asupra lumii, ci ofer? solu?ia dep??irii ei.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Vivir sin leer es peligroso, obliga a conformarse con la vida, y uno puede sentir la tentación de correr riesgos.

Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you ! Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I was innocent but certain, now I'm wiser but unsure.

You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people.

He knows everything but he lacks inexperience.

if you think you know what is going on, you haven't got a clue about what's going on.

Membaca adalah tulang dan sumsum, limpa dan darah bagiku.

Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.

He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring them and turning away. His sense of separation from and annoyance with these men and women who talked so glibly of war and who had not the faintest notion of what war was ebbed away; and he began to accept the fact that to chatter nonsense with neither knowledge nor perception was the ordinary manner of mankind.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

They reflect common sense or—as my mentor Nelson Goodman used to quip—common nonsense.

all our knowledge, both of time and space, is essentially relative....Position we must evidently acknowledge to be relative, for we cannot describe the position of a body in any terms which do not express relation....There are no landmarks in space; one portion of space is exactly like every other portion....We are, as it were, on an unruffled sea.

Gruber speaks of an "evolving systems" approach to the study of creativity: that is, one monitors simultaneously the organization of knowledge in a domain, the purpose(s) pursued by the creator, and the affective experiences he or she undergoes. While these systems are only "loosely coupled," their interaction over time helps one understand the ebb and flow of creative activity over the course of a productive human life.

I think that physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. Once you are sophisticated, you know too much-far too much.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead are the books you read and the people you're around.

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read . A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.