Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

The great men of science are supreme artists.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

only he who already understands can listen

Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

In some instances, I've found that executives don't even use their own products.

student Theaetetus to imagine the mind as a block of wax "on which we stamp what we perceive or conceive." Whatever is impressed upon the wax, Socrates said, we remember and know, provided the image remains in the wax, but "whatever is obliterated or cannot be impressed, we forget and do not know."1 A metaphor so suggestive and widespread that we still say that an experience "made an impression.

God is 'the Light', and this Name is partly equivalent to his Names 'the Truth' and 'the Knower'. Truth is the object of Knowledge, and both are Light as opposed to the darkness of error and ignorance. The Light is One, but it is manifested with different degrees of intensity throughout creation, degrees of guidance which radiate from Truth, and degrees of faith which radiate from Knowledge.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!