Quotes About Knowledge

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want

A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

Five qualities that you need to bring to an activity in order to do it well are: motivation, knowledge, ability, confidence, and authenticity.

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It really turns me on when you talk geek.

La desigualdad son siglos de aprenderla.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

How much does the energy know about me?" "Absolutely everything. More than you know but without the useless judgie parts. Nature doesn't know right or wrong, only consequences. The magic blends with you even as you resist getting out of the way. Your part is to make a choice about using magic in the first place. Magic doesn't intervene without being invited into the party.

That's how we learn, ain't it? Accidents 'n mistakes 'n it's all worth knowledge s'long as we keep from grinding ourselves down in the gutter over it.

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

She tried, leaning back and closing her eyes, to put in order what she had seen, heard, and what she had known before. She wanted to place her knowledge in paragraphs ( a good opening sentence? she thought), so that it would be easy to handle when she came to write it. But it did not fit in paragraphs and she could not see it, plain and informative, colourful but unimpassioned, on a page. There was no beginning, no middle, no end.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

Papa says folk will always hate what they do not understand; it is from ignorance.

I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.