Quotes About Knowledge

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

What brought me here was a desire to keep playing and the exciting project the Cosmos proposed to me. As well as being able to play, which is my passion and what I like doing, they also gave me the chance to help develop a youth academy, where I can bring my experience and knowledge to bear.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

The secret is to listen, open your mind, listen to the pros. With the help of the UFC's Performance Institute, too. Listening to my coaches and listening to my body, too. Having discipline. It's not just listening, too, because sometimes people have the knowledge but don't know how to use it. You need to be able to put that to practice.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.