Quotes About Knowledge

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derives No colour from the fleeting things without, But is absorb'd in sufferance or in joy, Born from the knowledge of its own desert.

While common men grow ignorantly old, The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife, Dissecting the whole inside of a question, And with it all the process of digestion.

But he who seeks the flowers of truth Must quit the garden for the field

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Sikap yang santun harus menghiasi orang yang berpengetahuan dan melicinkan jalannya dalam pergaulan.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

He was becoming something the world had never seen before - a dream animal - living at least partially within a secret universe of his own creation and sharing that secret universe in his head with other, similar heads. Symbolic communication had begun. Man had escaped out of the eternal present of the animal world into a knowledge of past and future. The unseen gods, the powers behind the world of phenomenal appearance, began to stalk through his dreams.

A content creator can have authority and expertise, but being a content creator does not automatically make them a true authority or expert.

AI can not make you an expert or an authority. AI can only make you appear to be an expert or an authority.

Anyone can publish a book. Anyone can be an author. But, not everyone has the authority, authenticity or expertise.

Confidence has to be backed up with competence.

Just because they came through an experience, doesn't mean they have the experience or ability to help someone else.