Quotes About Knowledge

the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

If not immanence, the soul's bright anchor--blood passed from one to the other--what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? One man always low, in a grave or on the ground, the other up high, closer to heaven; one man always diseased, the other a body in service, plundered.

What we normally mean by 'education,' " he once told a crowd of wolf advocates, is, "I want someone else to know what I know so they will have my values." In his experience, it didn't work that way.

but the watchers knew their story

was right. His much-vaunted mind had done

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

The information. It's out there, Rebbe. This part is not a sin.

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.

new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.

Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Lezen vrijwaart je van gekooide gedachten

Badreya whispered in her ear, "The price of freedom is high, Bodour, and there is no writing without freedom. Break your chains, Bodour, break free of your prison and reach out for the forbidden tree. If you eat from it, you will not die, for knowledge leads you to life and not to death. You will live forever.

Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu.

Knowledge is the highest form of worship for a Muslim believer.