Quotes About Knowledge

Beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart as they think they are but they've been intimidated into believing some topics are above them. You can understand almost anything if it is explained well. " ~ "World War I - The Rest of the Story and How it Affects You Today

Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

The past is relevant only as data.

Young man, there are some things in the world so profane that their only real value is in not knowing about them.

Are you asking because you want to see if doc can turn you into a librarian when all this is over?" [p.240:]

I close my eyes. "I keep coming back to this one thought: that I know everything about monsters and nothing about people.

Are all these from dead men?" Steinmetz leaned against the cabin door. "They're not all men's, and yes.

This is my domain. What exists here without knowledge exists here in defiance." "That doesn't even make sense." "He's calling them liars," says Daja. I look at her. "Again I ask: What does any of this have to do with me?

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

Creativity," Einstein famously said, "is more important than knowledge.

Scientists working with relativity, or quantum theory, or modern mathematics, or systems theory, or chaos, or complexity are at the top of their fields.

He or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

The limits of my language," wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, "are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." Without the word we are imprisoned; possessing the word, we are set free.

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.

it will not be enough for the mind to be illumined by the Spirit of God unless the heart is also strengthened and supported by his power. In this matter the Schoolmen go completely astray, who in considering faith identify it with a bare and simple assent arising out of knowledge, and leave out confidence and assurance of heart.

For the man, therefore, who has the duty of saying wisely even what he cannot say eloquently, it is supremely necessary that he should have the words of the Scriptures at his fingertips. For the poorer he perceives himself to be in his own words, the richer it behooves him to be in those of Scripture.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?