Quotes About Knowledge

The purpose of this book is not to make you more worried. The purpose of this book is to make you more smart.

What would you call an insect with a lot of answers? A consult-ant!

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around a corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know

Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last night, I would ask you who won.

A window let in light, which was a metaphor for knowledge and understanding.

When the Templars came back from the Middle East, they brought back all this knowledge that had been lost in Europe during the Dark Ages. Medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, cartography. The Church hated it.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

no man is more dangerous than an ignorant one with zeal.

You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been?

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.

Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

He had a wide-ranging knowledge of antislavery activism. He shared the loathing of slavery that was the common denominator among all its varieties, including Garrisonian radicalism, the evangelicalism of the Beechers and Finneys, Transcendentalist individualism, and the political approach of the Liberty and Free Soil Parties. Of the varieties, he strongly preferred the latter

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

The secret to life is: there is no secret.

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.

he bought all the stocks and businesses he understood, knew for a long time, which he was dead certain were "super bargains.

Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely.

History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.