Quotes About Knowledge

Tout est simple, lorsqu'on sait ce que l'on fait.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read.. because one life is not enough

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

That which you don't understand, you fear. That which you fear, you hate.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

It is wrong," he told his colleagues repeatedly, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is"—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."290

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.

Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Tests that measure a person's capacity to manage many problems at the expense of depth suit an economic regime that prizes quick study, superficial knowledge, all too often embodied by consultants who dart in and out of organizations. The craftsman's ability to dig deep stands at the pole opposite from potential ability deployed in this fashion.

Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly affected by choices I made, by how many facts I chose to study.