Quotes About Knowledge

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

It's not necessarily that we were wrong then and right now. It's just that our knowledge is constantly growing, and along the way we sometimes have to unlearn what we thought was true.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I think if our students, if our high school students — if all of the American citizens — knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in today

ASSIOMA DI COLE La somma dell'intelligenza sulla Terra è costante; la popolazione è in aumento.

So what do the young hotshots need? Old people on product teams, old people in marketing, and old people in the C-suite. They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

Crystallized intelligence, relying as it does on a stock of knowledge, tends to increase with age through one's forties, fifties, and sixties—and does not diminish until quite late in life, if at all.

They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

After all, as the saying goes, "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."[*

John Adams's maxim: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."1

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.