Quotes About Knowledge

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

Human expertise is too complex to be represented in a simple binary system

data is socially constructed.

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Poznavati se, zna?ilo bi znati ono što ne treba.

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

A escola foi para mim como um barco: me dava acesso a outros mundos. Contudo, aquele ensinamento não me totalizava.

the federal government pondered the river's greater virtues. Davis's railroad survey had whetted the War Department's thirst for geographic knowledge. The task of achieving the next great leap in understanding was assigned to a young officer of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers bearing the evocative name of Joseph Christmas Ives.

Far too much research conducted at business schools today has little or no value to business leaders.

Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?" - Jacen Solo

History is not just a flat chronicle of events. History is an understanding of the forces that work, the values that shape present action and direct the future. If you have that knowledge, you are empowered in ways that you can't get by watching the nightly news or reading the morning editorials. We live in an ahistorical age when many people's memories go back to breakfast, but if you're armed with that insight you have immense power for good.

For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigidly demarcated compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects.

to `educate' us, to keep us mentally enslaved.

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

he has never learned the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

ridge riding, to use Alvin Gouldner's term—between the Scylla of positivism and the Charybdis of conventionalist constructivism.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

She hadn't really known Box; it turned out perhaps she hadn't really known Vivian, either. Maybe nobody really knew anybody.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.