Quotes About Knowledge

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

There is no cure for stupid.

We know so many things that remain out of sight

SOCRATES: I appreciate that, Agathon, and of course I have prepared well for our dialogue. These discussions are my main way of becoming the best Socrates I can be. But if I just wanted to speak my own thoughts out loud, I could talk to a mirror, without the bother of leaving my house. I've come here because I'll only be sure I've done my best thinking, when I hear others, and submit to the exhilarating discipline of the dialogue. All of us are smarter than any of us.

Questions can excite, disturb, discipline, or comfort, but they always stimulate inquiry.

Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God.

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

All have validity in the present, and to call anyone wrong for using any one of them would be to reveal oneself as bereft of general knowledge and courtesy, as well as scholarship.

the burgeoning of research that had occurred since, internationally, and taking ever more sophisticated forms, had passed them by completely.

Trump doesn't read.

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.

For the first time, on March 17, President Trump declared the situation a pandemic—and promptly claimed he had known that all along.

We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." I

It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.

I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view of itself, and the White-centered view of African Americans, and even this is slim to nonexistent. What I find is that most people don't know the fact they don't know, because of the complete lack of information.

Don't be a person who feels you can and feels smart, but be a person who can and is smart to feel

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything.

As long as theoretic knowledge remains the privilege of a handful of "academicians" in the Party, the latter will face the danger of going astray.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth.

Zhaanat's knowledge was considered so important that she had been fiercely hidden away, guarded from going to boarding school. She had barely learned to read and write on the intermittent days she had attended reservation day school. She made baskets and beadwork to sell. But Zhaanat's real job was passing on what she knew. People came from distances, often camped around their house, in order to learn.