Quotes About Knowledge

Other men may thrill to the sight of Old Glory rippling in the breeze, but for me the library was a better symbol of what I had taken up arms to defend.

suspect that we do not know any more than the people of the past did, but only think somewhat differently.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

From prideful wisdom one falls into simple stupidity

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." —Marie Curie (1867–1934)

The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence

Even so, what I read often disappeared from my mind like snow on a hot pavement.

379Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

It doesn't matter how old someone is, it's what they've experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing.

Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?

But that's a funny idea. Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn't.

There is, after all, a real limit to how much ordinary people can learn and know, and to demand that each and every one of them contribute 'strong opinions' to the great debates of the nation cannot, surely, be wise. It is, in any case, absurd that anyone should presume to define a person's 'dignity' in these terms.

I'm sure, sir, there are all kinds of ethical issues. But in the end, it's for legislators to decide how these things get regulated, not people like me. For now, I just want to learn as much as I can, so I can take my understanding to the next level.

We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.

By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.

So why had we stayed silent that day? I suppose it was because even at that age—we were nine or ten—we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory. It's hard now to remember just how much we knew by then. We certainly knew—though not in any deep sense—that we were different from our guardians, and also from the normal people outside; we perhaps even knew that a long way down the line there were donations waiting for us.

Now I wonder what it could be you are reading there, Mr Stevens.' 'Simply a book, Miss Kenton.' 'I can see that, Mr Stevens. But what sort of book -- that is what interests me.

There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

European scholars had translated into Latin two important Arabic manuscripts, written by the ninth-century Persian mathematician Ab? 'Abdall?h Muammad ibn M?s? al-Khw?rizm? (ca. 780–ca. 850 CE).

How do we educate such individuals? We concentrate on the conceptual thinking that lies behind all the specific techniques of mathematics. Remember that old adage, "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime."? It's the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.

Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you'll ask, 'Why are bats furry?