Quotes About Knowledge

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Thomas Babington Macaulay,

To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge." —Rod Serling, excerpted from The Twilight Zone, opening narration, season one

know where every last one of them has gone.

Douglas E. Richards

instantly see the answer.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

I've always loved bright people. But at the same time, I can't stand intellectual snobs. You know, the type of people who look down their noses at anything mainstream, because they're way too smart for that. The type who have to say everything as pretentiously as possible, using the most obscure vocabulary every chance they get.

We today lack a theology of growth. And so we need to learn how we "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). In particular, we need to learn to cooperate with "the means of grace" that God has ordained for the transformation of the human personality. Our participation in these God-ordained "means" will enable us increasingly to take into ourselves Christ's character and manner of life.

Scholars may contribute their knowledge or insight to public debate on important issues. They may contribute it in a form that is understandable to a policymaker, or even to the public, consistently with their duty of rigorous intellectual honesty. Scholars should not feel constrained to publish only turgid prose in obscure journals. They should not leave the public debate to those who feel no scruples whatever to conform their claims to the evidence.

Above all, it is necessary to recognize that knowledge cannot be pumped into human beings the way grease is forced into a machine. The individual may learn; he is not taught.

Such visible failure and a sense of lost moorings can be – for the individual as for society – not only a cause for concern but an exhausting emotional process. Where once there was an overriding explanation (however many troubles that brought), now there is only an overriding uncertainty and question. And we cannot unlearn our knowledge.

Always at the hands of people who range from the semi-informed to the uninformed.

Worse is that we have begun trying to reorder our societies not in line with facts we know from science but based on political falsehoods pushed by activists in the social sciences. Of

All the years of education and learning, all the knowledge and experience in that head was destroyed in a moment by people who had achieved none of those things.

A succession of philosophers and historians spent their time studiously attempting to say nothing as successfully as possible.

The metaphysics that a new generation is imbibing and everyone else is being force-fed has many points of instability, is grounded in a desire to express certainty about things we do not know, and to be wildly dismissive and relativistic about things that we actually do know.

Lo peor es que hemos tratado de reordenar nuestras sociedades, no a partir de lo que sabemos gracias a la ciencia, sino de falsedades políticas patrocinadas por los activistas de las ciencias sociales.

People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Books,' he said, like he might have said 'Jewels.

If you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell