Quotes About Knowledge

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Innocence is the currency. Survival is bought with innocence. You are born with an abundance of innocence and no knowledge of how to survive: you spend your life trading one for the other. But it only works one way. You can't buy back your innocence.

The power of suggestion. Maybe everything human ended up being subjective and nothing could be known for sure.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably

If people would make an effort to learn about the wonders that did exist, he thought, their appetite for dragons would be well satisfied.

Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.

You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. —Scientist Emerson M. Pugh

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Once a computer was asked, "What is the truth?" It took a very long time before the reply came, "I will tell you a story…

Wisdom not only comes with suffering: when it comes, it is radically unusable. (Brooks' comment on the Oedipus tragedy)

Everywhere in Balzac desire is an urge to find out, to know (Freud's epistemophilia), which is to say that the drive to know is itself sexualized.

Blindness and madness punish the hubris of the man who possesses and employs a faculty for knowledge not given to other men.

Europeans the Poles or Balts coming in here … we brought here knowledge with us and our culture with us, but we assimilated … assimilated is not one way, it's a two-way street. - Fred Ritzkowski, German

Nos estamos ahogando en información, dicen, pero «pasamos hambre de conocimiento». Podemos convertirnos en «gigantes de la información», pero corremos el riesgo de convertirnos en «enanos del conocimiento».

somos todos ignorantes, só que sobre coisas diferentes", como observou o romancista e humorista norte-americano Mark Twain em um de seus numerosos aforismos sobre o assunto.

Those who were frequently tested reached the end of the semester on top of the material and did not need to cram for exams. How

Periodic practice arrests forgetting, strengthens retrieval routes, and is essential for hanging onto the knowledge you want to gain.

In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness.

you practice elaboration, there's no known limit to how much you can learn. Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know. The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to your prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.