Quotes About Knowledge

He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.

It takes more than knowing how to point the ship to be a captain," he said with more than a touch of black choler. "It takes knowing where and why to point it.

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

Bir duygu, hakk?nda aç?k bir fikir olu?turdu?umuz anda ihtiras olmaktan ç?kar." - Spinoza

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

Maybe we didn't want to know. Couldn't let ourselves know.

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

His textbooks

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

I loved learning about the history of things

When Nouri said that he wanted to be with God, Ibn Arwani said: "First you must learn who 'you' are. Then you must learn what it means to 'want.' What it means to 'be.' Then you must learn what 'God' is. Otherwise, it's just a game. A pretense.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

For every virus that we know about, there are hundreds that we don't know anything about,

man scatters seed on the ground … the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how." Had the farmer from scripture postponed his sowing until he understood the biology of seed germination, he wouldn't have lasted very long.

We certainly wouldn't want scientists to base anything on science!

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa ?ega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake no?i svojeg života. Pa što onda zna?i ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa ne?eš znati, po definiciji.

if you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-arts catalogues for machines that are never built," he explained. "I am as good a diagnostician of ecosystems as any doctor is of human beings, and I'm not on any damn ego trip when I say that. Sometimes I wish I did't have the knowledge hat I do, because I can get pretty damn glum.

Irreducibly metaphysical judgments as to the nature of being, form, time, space, matter, cause, truth, knowledge, explanation, wholes, parts, and the like are the starting point of science, not its conclusions.

Knowledge is the wisdom of one passing on the accumulation of their experience to others.

But despite their poverty and their lack of material resources, food, housing, and so forth, the poor do have an enormous wealth in their knowledges and powers of creation.

The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you'll become at what it is you choose to do.