Quotes About Knowledge

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Even as a child, I knew what the symbol of the Congress was.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on Mars.

We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

if Eve had had a spade and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.