Quotes About Knowledge

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

I had archives of everything that had happened since I hacked my governor module, but I hadn't had as much relevant experience in that time. But what I did have were thousands of hours of category mystery media, so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge that was possibly anywhere from 60 to 70 percent inaccurate shit.

an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I couldn't pin down what was bothering me. Scan was negative, and this far away from the team there was no ambient sound except the whisper through the air system. Maybe it was the lack of security camera access, but I'd been in worse places with no cameras. Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? Whatever, there was no knowledge base here to look it up.

Maybe I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

A forensic sweep might show that I'd been there. If forensic sweeps worked like they did in the entertainment media, which, come to think about it, I had no idea if they did or not. (Note to self: look up real forensic sweeps.)

No era el tipo de humano que preguntaba cosas que podía buscar por sí mismo en la red.

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

How can you judge something fairly when you don't know what the rules are? You can't play God, because you aren't God.

Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.

originality, foresight, and a wide range of knowledge, to name just a few introverted advantages. Introverts are often the employees

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books. They contain the condensed experiences of humanity. To live fully, one has to read widely.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness.

What, then, does one experience of the You? -- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it. -- What, then, does one know of the You? -- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....

It is a fortunate and astonishing fact that the fundamental laws of our fantastic fidgety universe are based on relatively simple equations. If it were otherwise, we surely would know less than we know now about how our universe behaves, and Newton and Leibniz would probably never have invented (or discovered?) calculus.

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.