Quotes About Knowledge

They create our expectations. Keep in mind that an expectation is a belief projected into some future moment. Since we can't expect something we don't know about, we could also say that an expectation is what we know projected into some future moment.

now protecting ourselves from information.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why

We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'.

those who have never heard of "MJ-12" and those who "knew" that it was simply a very elaborate hoax.

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the Mono-Culture").

Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

Rich men have big libraries. Poor men have big TVs.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

Knowing isn't understanding

A communications expert once made this distinction: "A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

generally, the less knowledgeable one appears, the more forthcoming and revealing the other party will be.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.