Quotes About Knowledge

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

La mayor sabiduría que existe es conocerse a uno mismo.

This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

A little education goes a long way in accomplishing four essential goals.

Let's be honest here - 99 percent of MMA fans haven't got a clue what's going on. They don't understand the game enough to comment on any of that. They don't know how easy it is to have an impressive record. I could have 10 guys in my gym tomorrow, beat them all up, and there's 10 wins for my record. It is that easy. It is that easy to be 10-0.

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.