Quotes About Knowledge

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

From my academic life, I was used to being in the company of very smart people, but it was apparent from the beginning that this was as smart a bunch of men as I had ever encountered. That first impression never changed (though I was to learn, in the years ahead, the severe limitations of sheer intellect

Unfortunately, even big ideas leave no fossils for carbon dating

Clarke's first law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."14

The average newspaper boy in Pittsburgh knows more about the universe than did Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo, or any of those other guys who were so smart they only needed one name.

The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained. It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship, that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.

In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask.

Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics.

Our left brains have made us rich. Powered by armies of Drucker's knowledge workers, the information economy has produced a standard of living in much of the developed world that would have been unfathomable to our great-grandparents.

Know everything about the history of your profession and then forget it all when you design something new.

They think they know a lot about me, because I know a lot about them.

we've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again—to a society of creators and empathizers, of pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field."8

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal

You want to know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things. You want to know everything. But you can understand so little.

The true knowledge is not in the things, which are few, but in finding the connection between the things.

I don't know it for sure. Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Unless you have a hundred unanswered questions in your mind you haven't read enough...

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.