Quotes About Knowledge

Archimedes was a mathematician, blurted Ethan from the back of the room. And he was Greek. And he invented things. Ethan was the sort of student who was always keeping score--if he couldn't be the first to declare his knowledge of something, he would make certain you understood that he'd known it already. One day he would be declared the winner, and there would be a Smartest Boy trophy and a parade.

We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

Almost all science is done by very normal people

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience.

What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals.

What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked.

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

It hadn't been love at first sight, but it was pretty damn close. He was so funny and charming and smart. All the books he'd read. All the stuff he knew.

I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

The young have everything but wisdom.

You really believe in the power of books, don't you?" "Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

Live and learn from fools and from sages.

When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

He who learns must suffer.

Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.

Learning comes through pain.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.