Quotes About Knowledge

The need to do something tends to trump the need to understand what needs to be done.

documentary records.

Copyright © 2009 Oxford University Press eBook Copyright © 2010

Angus Stevenson

Everything is a learning experience.

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.

Money was not everything, because after all, it is only brains that count.

I'm now old enough to personally identify every object in antique stores.

But how do you ever know that you know a person?

Knowledge determines to a great extent what we will pay attention to, perceive, learn, remember, and forget (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Sawyer, 2006). For example, compared to fourth-graders with little knowledge of soccer, fourth-graders who were soccer experts learned and remembered far more new soccer terms, even though the abilities of the two groups to learn and remember nonsoccer terms were the same.

Books hold our culture, our past, other worlds, the antidote for sadness.

but I didn't see the humor since I didn't know Maggie May from Sara Lee. I

She'd once read out a comment she'd been given at her appraisal: You shouldn't believe that you're indispensable. Your role is to pass on your skills to others. 'Well

Again, Juliet took a while to answer and wondered how much she should tell. But Vera was a witch; she'd find out anyway.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe? Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?