Quotes About Knowledge

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

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

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

Knowledge requires that what we believe is true and that we can justify our belief that it is true. In this way, the pursuit of knowledge resembles the work of police detectives: it's not enough to get the right man, you also must have the evidence.

Civilisation hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their fall collapses the whole edifice of knowledge and understanding.

Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento no son los datos que se manejan sino más bien la certeza vivencial, también es verdad que esta última puede no ser compartida. La razón de ello no radica en el hecho de que la certeza sea relativista, sino solamente en la existencia de diferentes certezas. Todos llegamos al mismo conocimiento interno porque éste no es relativo en cuanto a su verdad, pero existen diferentes gradientes y ritmos para alcanzarlo

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Denying God is admiting your ignorance.

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.

Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Write down what I think I know. The knowing will come. Just keep listening...

I should have known that sometimes common sense skips a generation.

Jacqueline Woodson

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.