Quotes About Knowledge

When we were desperate or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them never suspecting the terrifying truth that the right words, as simple as they were had not been written yet

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

I have begun to imagine human knowledge and ignorance as tracing a curve of asymptotic divergence, such that with every increase in knowledge, there occurs a greater increase in ignorance, the result being that our ignorance always exceeds our knowledge, and the gap between the two grows infinitely greater, not smaller, as infinite time passes.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Knowledge is useless unless you know where it ends.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

Magic, after all, is no more than the product of knowledge others don't share.

I give the children education.

i love reading book

sure you know what you're doing?

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

The entire world is hungry. For one thing or another. They thirst. They hunger. They crave. Wine. Entertainment. Knowledge. Sometimes for the mundane work of sustenance. And sometimes for lust.

Those who know why will always beat those who know how." Here's

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it's knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.

All books have magical properties.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists, was science itself.

Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny.