Quotes About Knowledge

Rather than providing us with information to be downloaded, the Bible holds out for us an invitation to join an ancient, well-traveled, and sacred quest to know God, the world we live in, and our place in it. Not abstractly, but intimately and experientially.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.

Astronomy post 2050 had effectively ceased to be a pure science.

For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. "I win," he said softly, then shouted it. "I fucking win! And the universe knows it.

knowledge is a true power in any society

It remained a source of mild shame that he'd never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.

Universal law: data wants to be free.

Farside night acts as a magnet as they gather to observe the stars. Eyes and minds linked by telepathy, acting as a gigantic multi-segment telescope. There is no technology, no economy. Their culture is not orientated towards the mechanical or materialistic; their knowledge is their wealth. The data-processing capacity of their linked minds far exceeds that of any electronic computer system, and their perception is not limited to the meagre electromagnetic wavelengths of the optical bands.

If everyone was educated to the highest standard possible. We would all be equal." "We can't all be aristocrats. Who would do all the work?

Our conclusion is that you are simply studying us. We would now like to know why. As sentient entities we have that right.

affects ought to be studied in their own right, and that they constitute an independent sphere of knowledge—distinct from perception, cognition, and memory. According to Tomkins, affects are primary biological motivating mechanisms and can, thus, be understood as having primacy in human agency.

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Rather than tending to assume that observation was in principle correctible, empiricists ... did not think it was possible (or even desirable) to rectify or perfect perception, because ... For them, all human knowledge is always necessarily circumscribed, conditioned by context, and conceived in terms of relationship

Defying its narrow name, what the late nineteenth century called the industrial revolution went far beyond creating modern industry; it altered out of all recognition commerce, banking, transport, communications, administration, medicine, the relations of men and women and employers and employees. It was a revolution in knowledge that the Victorian century would master more completely, and would need more urgently, than any of its predecessors.

With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.