Quotes About Knowledge

Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other's knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery. All day the snow falls down, all night the snow. I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. We left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.

Verse. Chorus. Verse. I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Grofield said, "And you, knowing about the plan, have decided to go down to Acapulco on Friday and warn the General to be on the eary." "On the what?

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are common and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields—from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably.9

Knowledge, however, is non-rival.

Our view is that there is nothing so special or unique about professionals' knowledge to suggest that some of it cannot be made easily accessible and understandable on an online basis.

Our second objection to the professions under the grand bargain is that, by and large, the arrangement presupposes a model of professional work, especially advisory work, that rests on increasingly antiquated techniques for creating and sharing knowledge.

Many of today's students who are training to be traditional professionals will, in due course, be engaged as knowledge engineers. These new professionals will specialize in designing certain kinds of online service—we call this the 'knowledge engineering' model (section 5.7).

Sometimes experts say that their knowledge cannot be articulated, that it is 'gut reaction' or 'intuition'. But through introspection and with the support of 'knowledge engineers' (specialists in knowledge elicitation—see section 6.8), they often find that they are able to model their expertise.

there be different and better ways of producing knowledge and making it available in society, methods that might not directly involve the traditional professions at all?

Put bluntly, professionals tend not to like sharing what they know with other professionals.

Watson Doesn't Know It Won on "Jeopardy!

The security staff boasted that a squirrel could not get onto the grounds without their knowledge. However, they could not explain a family of deer that seemed to come and go as they pleased.

theological aesthetics will consider God, religion, and theology in relation to sensible knowledge (sensation, imagination, and feeling), the beautiful, and the arts.

pride, as merely wanting to "eat from the tree of knowledge", when Adam already has knowledge of everything useful to know, even to the point of "naming" (that is to say, to have a controlling knowledge over) all the creatures of the earth? Accordingly, we must look for a deeper pride — the prideful ambition of wanting to be "as gods", equal to the Creator. As psychologist Eric Fromm pointed out

Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet unable to communicate one's ideas in written form.

Without the learned skills passed down to us by previous generations, we are in trouble. With them, we dominate the planet.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...