Quotes About Knowledge

the currency of the future will be memory

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Education is not about scoring an A grades as you may think always, education is about acquiring Wisdom and Knowledge with full scale implementation. That's why I am educated ever.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Men, I had often observed, were never happier than when they believed they were imparting wisdom.

I know very little, but I am curious about a good deal.

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

Children know nothing beyond the upbringing they have. It is only adults who regret what they lacked.

When Gilchrist and Sweeney aren't debating the odds of getting Goldie Hawn into bed, they are trying to stump each other with film quotes.

You don't believe the public should have access to the accumulation of human knowledge? To the accomplishment of art and exploration?

I am a scientist," I told him ruthlessly. "I do not require perfect knowledge in order to form a working hypothesis, only possibilities.

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Knowledge was a personal life preserver you could always count on when you were swimming in the deep end

He's going for wisdom but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn't any.

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The drive to know fuels the desire to seek.