Quotes About Knowledge

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Aristotle defined a first principle as "the first basis from which a thing is known." First principles thinking is therefore the art of breaking a problem down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.

And it's like that Zen saying: 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

You have experience in C programming? That's mainly what we need on that project.

The sole mission of science is to light the road.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

The trouble with truth is that not only does truth stink; it usually does not exist.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

El conocimiento, el saber, es libertad, mientras que la ignorancia es esclavitud, y yo, simplemente, no podía creer que alguien estuviera tan cerca de la libertad y no se aprovechase de su buena suerte. Es

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Our contention is that doctrines do indeed consist of genuine knowledge about God, and that religion involves the whole person: intellect, emotions, and will.

You cannot be sure that you are right, unless you understand the arguments against your view better than your opponents do. by Milton Friedman (p.10)

Ali, upamti, pismen gleda u knjigu, nau?en gleda u mudrog, a mudar gleda u nebo ili u suknju, što može i nepismen...

Knowledge is a perishable commodity; it can turn sour in a second. Like the future.

Misfortune comes from all successful attempts at education.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you.

babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

Just study," Hansu had said. "Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

Yoseb read three or four papers to glean some truth from the gaps and overlaps.