Quotes About Knowledge

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.

Beware of the person of one book.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

Research is the highest form of adoration

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.

If we pass now from physical nature to the moral world, we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of appearance, to the same influences of spontaneity and habit. But the distinguishing feature of this second division of our knowledge is, on the one hand, the good or the evil which we derive from our opinions; and, on the other, the obstinacy with which we defend the prejudice which is tormenting and killing us.

Read Euler , read Euler , he is the master of us all.

statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Information is power. --Humfrey

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.