Quotes About Knowledge

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. It's like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious. Why does this make you proud to be an American? The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

How do you know so much?" Babette said. "I'm from New York.

These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.

My name is Viverrine Gentian. Who are you?" "You said you knew." "And so I do," she said. "I was simply wondering if we agreed." "What's that book?" "It's a story called Somnium. A beautiful and extremely rare book. Written in Latin with a smidgen of Hebrew and Greek.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

What is a nucleotide ? You don't know, do you? Yet these are the building blocks of life. What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Vernon liked to hang around outside the house, waiting for garbagemen, telephone repairmen, the mail carrier, the afternoon news-boy. Someone to talk to about techniques and procedures. Sets of special methods. Routes, time spans, equipment. It tightened his grip on things, learning how work was done in areas outside his range.

Are you people telling me," Babette said, "that a rat is not only a vermin and a rodent but a mammal too?

I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit." I

To know and not to act is not to know

Abbiamo bisogno di sapere cose che gli altri non sanno. È quello che nessuno sa di te che ti permette di conoscerti.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?

The Truth is that you have no idea what you really are but you know what you are not

Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their live and do their activities.

We only need to remember sufficient knowledge to let us get our tasks done. Because so much knowledge is available in the environment, it is surprising how little we need to learn. This is one reason people can function well in their environment and still be unable to describe what they do.

Los recordatorios constituyen un buen ejemplo de las compensaciones relativas entre las funciones del conocimiento interno frente a las del externo.

Procedural knowledge is largely subconscious, residing at the behavioral level of processing.