Quotes About Knowledge

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

We quote from books. Movies are made from books. Musicals are made from books. Much of our religion and spiritual belief comes from books. Books can help us understand who we are and why we do what we do and think what we think. Books teach us about life and humanity. Sometimes books can remind us we can overcome all that life throws at us. Books entertain us, and I cannot imagine a life without books.

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.

MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past's genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft. Churchill

gargantuan memory for facts

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

everyone who exists is mentally compromised. We all accumulate false information over time, internalize it, and are influenced by it, consciously or otherwise. We are, in part, a product of these biases, as well as all other information we gather in our lifetimes.

The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed

In general, meddling stems from a supervisor exploiting too much superior work knowledge (real or imagined). The negative leverage produced comes from the fact that after being exposed to many such instances, the subordinate will begin to take a much more restricted view of what is expected of him, showing less initiative in solving his own problems and referring them instead to his supervisor.

Your information sources should complement one another, and also be redundant because that gives you a way to verify what you've learned.

information-gathering is the basis of all other managerial work, which is why I choose to spend so much of my day doing it.

the definition of "manager" should be broadened: individual contributors who gather and disseminate know-how and information should also be seen as middle managers, because they exert great power within the organization.

The "delegator" and "delegatee" must share a common information base and a common set of operational ideas or notions on how to go about solving problems, a

Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.

I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

Good books are always about everything.

People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.