Quotes About Knowledge

the more we know, superficially, the less we penetrate, vertically.

We know a great deal more than the Greeks did about the forces of life. But with all our knowledge, no one fully comprehends the miraculous process, known as photosynthesis, by which trees and other green plants use energy from the sun to transform elements into food for themselves at the same time that they release oxygen into the atmosphere. Photosynthesis makes life on Earth possible, and it is the most important function performed by green plants of all kinds.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…

In other words, it is precisely because we have lost our grasp of the nature of knowledge that we have nothing to educate with for the salvation of our order.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

The first and most obvious understanding of education comes from the fact that anyone who can not tell Reason from rubbish is not yet in a condition to know that he can not tell Reason from rubbish, a disability, which, you would suppose, can hardly be one of those put forth as education. But it is.

he folded the parchment and put it away. The words raised some questions in his mind but as there was no one to ask he decided it was better to have good advice you didn't entirely understand than poor precepts that were perfectly clear.

Defer the actual decision until a decision can be made more responsibly, based on actual knowledge, but not so late that it is not possible to take advantage of the knowledge.

The truth is that even the most beautiful, elegant and re-usable architecture, framework or system will only be re-used by people who: a) know it is there b) know how to use it c) are convinced that it is better than doing it themselves

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

Robinson could do with three or four facts what prehistorians achieved with stray dinosaur bones:

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.' Walt Disney.

Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.

In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

Ostin smiled. "Tell me something I don't know. Oh, wait, you can't.