Quotes About Knowledge

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

The ongoing paradigm shift reminds us that what we think we know is always subject to revision, and that true progress requires a willingness to challenge and evolve our beliefs.

The truly intelligent person is one who knows when to use logic and when to rely on intuition.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Wer leichter glaubt, wird schwerer klug.

Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

As Plato wrote long ago, the only people who will no longer see war are the dead. Which, of course, is precisely why we need to understand it as best we can.

old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.

Glad that if nothing else he had learned one thing. You couldn't protect your kids properly until you understood exactly what you were supposed to be protecting them from.

Oh, to be that young again, and know what she knew now.

them all, and cost them dearly. He knew more about their daughter's future

I'm a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading

When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.

With you guys, it seems like I'm hot stuff … a know-it-all … but I've been back with The Batman again, and next to him I feel like I'm a stupid kid repeating fifth grade … for the third time.

The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.

Humans are big animals, but it takes an immense effort just to capture a few of them. The hunted are as alert, evasive, and as well-informed about hunting as the hunters.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Yeshua said, Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.

receiving knowledge means truly to come into being, to be manifested, whereas those who remain in error do not really exist at all

When you know yourselves,7 then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

You don't read for understanding, you read for excitement. Understanding is a product of excitement.

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.