Quotes About Knowledge

Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.

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That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.

What a man doesn't know he can't spill if he is captured; neither drugs, nor torture, nor brainwash, nor endless lack of sleep can squeeze out a secret he doesn't possess.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few. When concealing such knowledge strikes at life itself, the action becomes treason to the race.

Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

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

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of a man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance; he saw no point in "measurements

To prove that degrees, per se, are worthless. Often they are honorifics of true scientists or learned scholars or inspired teachers. Much more frequently they are false faces for overeducated jackasses.

It's much safer to break a law knowingly than to do so through ignorance.

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

Magic," I stated, "is a symbol for any process not understood.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

A doctorate is a union card to get a tenured job. It does not mean that the holder thereof is wise or learned.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke. That doesn't mean I don't read and can't think. I read everything from Giblett to Hoyle, from Sartre to Pauling. I read in the tub, I read on the john, I read in bed, I read when I eat alone, and I would read in my sleep if I could keep my eyes open.

duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with.

How can I be sure? I'm a doctor, not a fortune-teller.

They made solemn pronouncements about conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, on the basis of computer models, which they had produced with computers not even bright enough to talk, let alone understand speech. They were unlike all the generations before theirs in several ways, but chiefly in that they had no faintest clue how ignorant they were. Previous ages had usually had a pretty good handle on that.

One thing that I always did every time I reached an inhabited planet was to study law. Not to practice. . . . But to understand the ground rules.

He knew that he did not invent the information brought to him by his senses. There had to be something else out there, some otherness that produced the things his senses recorded. All philosophies that claimed that the physical world around him did not exist except in his imagination were sheer nonsense. But