Quotes About Knowledge

I don't know everything. And I like not knowing everything. Because then I can learn it.

A relação da medicina com o charlatanismo é a mesma da astronomia com a astrologia. O que as estrelas predizem para os leitores de jornais é inofensivo, mas o lançamento de um ônibus espacial ou de um satélite, orientado pela astrologia, ao invés da astronomia, seria desastroso. Mas a humanidade sofre de uma fascinação eterna pelos charlatães. Talvez porque todos nós gostemos de pensar que sabemos mais do que nossos médicos.

The premise of the article, and later the book, is that in our increasingly complicated world people cannot be expected to have the expertise to make anything close to optimal decisions in all the domains in which they are forced to choose.

They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed, and in which feedback is slow or infrequent

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." People

Learning is most likely if people get immediate, clear feedback after each try.

If you will only ask yourself, "Is what I am being told really true?," it is amazing how much you can find is, or borders on, being false, even in a well-developed field!

Almost everyone who opens up a new field does not really understand it the way the followers do." The evidence for this is, unfortunately, all too good. It has been said in physics no creator of any significant thing ever understood what he had done.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier

The cool feats of our scientific men are known to us all – such as that of Sir Humphry Davy inhaling a particular gas with an accurate report every minute or two of its successive effects upon his brain and sense.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

But the truth is I found out about Davy in the usual way a small boy finds out things he is denied to know by older people, and that is through other small boys.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

The essence of it all—this is the important part—was the knowledge that my thoughts had been real. Not just the things I said and did. What went on in my mind as well, positive or negative.

And this knowledge you say you've acquired—are you conscious of an increase in it since your ill-fated visit to the library?" Fed nodded. "I know more than ever.

There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before.

as Huxley put it-'to sit down before fact as a little child—be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.