Quotes About Knowledge

The past never lets us go. It is persistent an unalterable. The future, however, is aloof, a stranger. It stands with its back to us, mute and private, refusing to communicate what it knows or what it sees. Except to some." - Gregor Eisenhorn

The true purpose of mankind is to bear the torch of truth aloft and shine it, even into the darkest places.

Locally, there were other phrases that had come into coin, phrases the administry did not encourage at all. 'If something's worth doing, it's worth doing in triplicate', 'Those who shred history are doomed to repeat it' and 'I file everything, therefore I know nothing' were three of the most popular.

You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains.

I thought I had trained you well, Beta,' she said, 'but I see I must reinforce the most basic conditioning. Know yourself. Understand yourself. In this life, most answers lie within, or in plain view right in front of us. They can be seen with ease if you but take the time to look.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Smart people don't have the luxury of playing stupid.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

But if we stop learning stuff," I protested, "we'll get dumber." "In your case," Andrea told me, "that would be impossible.

How does anybody know anything? I Googled it!

Naaaaaaayyyyy," said Pootie. "Milk comes out of goats?" I asked. "I thought milk came out of cows." "It comes out of goats, too, Arlo," said Andrea. Little Miss Know-It-All was proud of herself because she knew something I didn't know. I hate her. "See, we learned something already," said Mrs. Lizzy. "Goats

Did you know that we live inside the sun?

the year 1790. Computers haven't been invented yet.

Melvil Whoey?" I asked. "Melvil Dewey was a very famous librarian," Mrs. Roopy said, and her eyes got all bright and sparkly and excited.