Quotes About Knowledge

Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist.

One does not need visions when one has data.

There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem. Excerpt From The Consuming Fire John Scalzi This material may be protected by copyright.

Institutional leaders will need to seek out "reverse mentors" among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices.

When people chase what they love, they will inevitably seek out and immerse themselves in knowledge flows, drinking deeply from new creative wells even as they contribute their own experiences and insights along the way.

No one will be able to effectively participate in relevant knowledge flows without possessing useful knowledge stocks of their own. People who reach out to connect with others to simply take knowledge will find that these interactions quickly dry up as others begin to realize they have little to gain from these connections. As in all relationships, reciprocity is essential. Knowledge stocks thus become both a means and an end to participation in knowledge flows.

According to Hidary, most people become too dependent on one facet of their lives. And when one facet takes up 80 percent of somebody's total exposed surface area, they tend to become defensive around it, protective. They become "experts." They treat what they know as a stock rather than a flow, and they tend to isolate themselves from flows of new knowledge and the people creating them.

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books ere really in the books.

Thou knowest not what bitches women are, Danny said wisely. I do know, said Pilon. Thou knowest not. I do know. Liar.

A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

That is a great mystery," said Doctor Winter. "That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.