Quotes About Knowledge

Like the entire Saudi leadership, MBS had, practically speaking, no education.

Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a policy background. Nobody had a legislative background.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total television.

You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Since I would rather make of him [the child] an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide [tutor] with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.