Quotes About Knowledge

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

Competent men in every position, if they are doing their best, know all that there is to know about their work except how to improve it.

A supervisor comes in and is gone in five weeks. Another one comes in. He likewise knows nothing about this job and has no intention to learn much about it, as he too will move on any day.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

If the principle of impurity is admitted, then impurity is everywhere. There are worms in cow dung and in wood. Many though the grains of corn be, there is none of them which does not contain life. There was life in the primordial waters from which vegetation came. How can impurity be warded off? It is to be found in every kitchen. Nanak says, pollution is not removed in this way [through rituals]. It is washed away by knowledge of God. (AG 472)

Rose meant that while horror films proffered suspense, in reality every fan knows the accepted "rules" of the genre. He argued that, in general, horror movies are actually "one of the safest spaces in cinema" since a fan's knowledge of what to expect provides them with a "flashlight" for the darkest corners a director might lead them to.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor Babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the Hierophants of Sais, Memphis and Thebes Greek literature has transmitted to us.

As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I would be ignorant as the dawn That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses; I would be—for no knowledge is worth a straw Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

when, if the tale's true, The Pestle of the moon That pounds up all anew Brings me to birth again To find what once I had And know what once I have known, Until I am driven mad

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom