Quotes About Knowledge

there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer it.

If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

education is not simply preparation for life; education is life itself.

Is it, then, necessary to have experienced pain in order to prevent or cure it? "The majority of physicians have never been killed by the disease they treat. "Does this fact prevent them from combatting disease victoriously?

We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties.

M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. ... So that those who need can find that this person did live, those events really took place, this interpretation is not the only one.

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

A ciência é o poder do ser humano.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence.

Avevo imparato ad atteggiare le labbra al sorriso di chi la sa lunga sulle vicende del mondo, un sorriso simile a quello di un giovane sacerdote. Avevo il senso di non essere né vivo né morto.