Quotes About Knowledge

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

Corvino, whose contribution is—like its author—sophisticated, civil, and well-informed.

If the 'I' is understood strictly as we have been taking it, then it is quite certain that knowledge of it does not depend on things of whose existence I am as yet unaware; so it cannot 28depend on any of the things which I invent in my imagination.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Life is short and the number of books is appalling.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time.

A secret is not a thing you're not supposed to tell; it is a thing that can't be told.

Qui non intellegit, aut taceat aut discat: if you don't get it, shut up or go figure.

Well, you know, it's probably not the first time it ever happened in the world," she said.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

What maybe you learn as you grow older is that the world is old—very old. When you're young, the world seems young. That's all.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.' Oscar Wilde53

I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.' Freeman Dyson24

Our brains are the most complicated objects that we have so far encountered in the Universe. We are far from simple. Indeed, were our brains significantly simpler, we would be too simple to know it.

Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though there were an unknown realm of truth to be discovered.

the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life's charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.

would you rather stand before God as a learned theologian who is full of pride or an unlearned man with a head full of superstition who worships in spirit and in truth?

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.