Quotes About Knowledge

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, 'I don't know', then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.

A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous—in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn't known what it was, what it could do. If, in my ignorance, I had handled it carelessly, it would have killed me as casually and as innocently as a kitten scratches.

One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

Math is hard work and it occupies your mind—and it doesn't hurt to learn all you can of it, no matter what rank you are; everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.