Quotes About Knowledge

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!