Quotes Tagged "knowledge"

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.