Quotes About Knowledge

How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.

Humankind now produces in two days the same amount of data it took us from the dawn of civilisation until 2003 to generate.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Skúsenos? bez vzdelania je viac ako vzdelanie bez skúsenosti.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

the U.S. government will learn that we can be trusted. We know about bad guys, what they do, and, often, who they are.

this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity. Those tribesmen treasure, above all things, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who shares himself in the divine?

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

know Lee and Lisa. But you did.

No, I'm talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought diseases were caused by an imbalance in the humors. A century ago, visiting the moon was the stuff of fantasists. There are always things we don't know yet, and they always look like superstition until we understand.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

knew what you meant." "Think about it, Will. That was the end. We've seen the whole span, beginning to end. Life to nothingness. We know every step of it. Every fading footfall." She paused. "And still don't really know anything, do we?

We are," Quinn said. "We're doing all of the stuff you've seen on tri-d. But if you want to see your friend again, we need to know what you know.

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.