Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn't like.

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation.

It's easy to imagine a world in which genes have control over our minds, and for many animals they do. But once we took the evolutionary pathway toward greater intelligence and a lifestyle that relies on learning rather than inborn knowledge, our genes had no choice but to relinquish much of their control.

It was our capacity to learn from the experiences of others that gave Homo sapiens an enormous local advantage, with new strategies and innovations built on a platform of prior discoveries. As a consequence, each generation had no need to reinvent the wheel, and a child could acquire an understanding of the world that a few generations back would have been available only to geniuses.

Although building science has been taught in schools of architecture for quite some time, the knowledge and understanding it encompasses are still not part of students' and architects' cognitive framework and design intuition.

just as twenty years ago, everyone knew John Colter and Jim Bridger.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized; distilled into knowledge. Thinking, the processing of knowing to knowledge.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs—in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.