Quotes About Knowledge

She reeked of tenure

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

There's someone out there who's suited for you. Someone who has enough strength or knowledge to keep themselves safe. I bet there's a foxy young man looking right now for a woman who can take care of herself and thinking he can't have anyone either.

You're taking classes? That's great. Crime scene etiquette, perhaps?

teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.

Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.

But long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them; while on the other hand, to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

Why have a word for something they'd never seen?

ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.

texts are written for people to read later.

Now, everyone knows everything. No one on the planet is ignorant of the real conditions of our shared social existence. That's one real thing those stupid smartphones have done; you can be illiterate, many are, and still have an excellent idea of how the world works.

From the road he wrote bitterly to Sagredo: Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

The good that [Galileo] fought for is not so easy to express. But put it this way: he believed in reality. He believed in paying attention to it, and in learning what he could of it, and then saying what he had learned, even insisting on it. Then in trying to apply that knowledge to make things better, if he could. Put it this way: he believed in science.

To conclude and temporarily halt this train of thought, how does any entity know what it is? Hypothesis: by the actions it performs. There is a kind of comfort in this hypothesis. It represents a solution to the halting problem. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

No one knows anything. But I know less than that, because I thought I knew something, but it was wrong. So I know negatively. I unknow.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

Knowledge is important, but much more important is the use toward which it is put. This depends on the heart and mind of the one who uses it.

Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty.