Quotes About Knowledge

Competency is more valued than seniority; knowledge is more useful than status.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation. 4. Get the mappings right. 5. Exploit the power of constraints. 6. Design for error. 7. When all else fails, standardize.

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.

In this century theres been much stress placed not upon what we know but on knowing that our methods are themselves questionableour Song of Songs is the Uncertainty Principle.

now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all through the viewer with such speed that the machine was actually rocking on the table. (Several other researchers, with the frowns of elephants disturbed at their feeding, had gathered up their own materials and moved

I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Revelation is a "meeting" between God and the believer whereby God speaks and we hear. The "spoken word" is a metaphor containing two elements: personal encounter and the impartation of knowledge.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more books than just about anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot what he read.