Quotes About Knowledge

What gets us into trouble is not what don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

We must always couch our current scientific knowledge as "currently unfalsified.

It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

Things mechanical are like the ladies,' continued Toby. 'You need to understand their ways. If you understand them, they'll do what you want from the start. If you don't, they've got you. And then God help you.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing to do with college degrees or reading books. True intelligence is a willingness to exchange a fallacy for a fact.

belief is the death of intelligence.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Learning, like oxygen, is something imbibed from the atmosphere about one.

Are students so intimidated by expertise that they've lost confidence in their own powers of observation?

Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd.

It is odd that despite their current widespread use and looming future importance, most of us know very little about our automatic behavior patterns. Perhaps that is so precisely because of the mechanistic, unthinking manner in which they occur. Whatever the reason, it is vital that we clearly recognize one of their properties: They make us terribly vulnerable to anyone who does know how they work.

Indeed, why even study history? The brief response is because our understandings of the past—who we are, where we came from, why we are here—inform our definitions of who we are in the present and have real implications and applicability for actions taken by us or in our name to shape the future.