Quotes About Knowledge

It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could hope to achieve. My own appetite for knowledge and reading and connection had led me, and that is how education works, not by spoon-feeding, but by stimulating the appetite so that children cannot wait to feed themselves.

and of course Dr. Harry Hollmann, the only familiar face among them. All wore crisp white uniforms. "I have labored against many blights in my time," Dr. Currie told them, "from bubonic plague in San Francisco to yellow fever in New Orleans. Like them, leprosy at present eludes our understanding. But by volunteering at this station you are all helping to provide us with the tools and the knowledge necessary to someday, God willing, obliterate this scourge.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

Making believe you know will get you farther than making believe you don't know.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the wise know without traveling; See without looking; Work without doing.

The answer is simpler than you think.

Curiosity, after all, was what had driven mankind out from his isolated, unimportant world and across the gulf between the stars. It had also, he thoughtfully reminded himself, killed the figurative cat.

If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.

That's not what's bothering you, is it? You're worried about what they might find. Or have we all misjudged you and you're really a high-minded seeker after knowledge, a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of the known universe?' 'Hell, no.' Parker didn't seem the least offended by Ripley's casual sarcasm. 'I'm a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of my bank account.

Crazy thing is, it's all real. The Jedi, the Force—it's true. All true.

With regret, he realized that despite his intensive studies there was still much about this world and its dominant Larian society that he did not know. And of course he had not been able to bring with him anything of an advanced nature, like a vorec, which would have allowed him to look up the answers to such questions.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza

Women always figure out the truth.

Higher learning does not preclude the presence of lower minds.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied just to know that cobra venom is deadly. It's not always efficacious to study the snake face to face. You have to balance what you might learn against the known chance of getting bit.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.

Aunque un enunciado pueda ser calidicado de hecho observable porque ha superado todas las pruebas a las que se le haya sometido hasa cierto momeno, esto no quiere decir que necesariamente superará los nuevos tipos de prueba posibles a la luz de los adelantos en el conocimiento y en la tecnología.

One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true.

Good books shouldn't be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

That's what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.

To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.

But, all things considered, I believe that most people read quickly because they want not to read but to have read. But why do they want to have read? Because, I think, they conceive of reading simply as a means of uploading information to their brains.