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Knowledge Quotes
"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."
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"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."
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"You can either acquire knowledge through a library or just have a Saggitarius friend!"
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"With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action."
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"Wisdom is not merchandise, hence it is possible to come across a rich fool."
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"Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance."
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"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
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"Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds."
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"Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!"
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"Psychology is a condensed version of mindset, whereas philosophy is an abstract of the human society."
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"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."
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"Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?"
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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
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"Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else."
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"Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."
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"Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment."
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"Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand, induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance, and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales."
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"We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well."
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"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
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"Follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)"
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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
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"It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it-to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse."
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"An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it."
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"Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
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"You begins with 'Y'-so ask, observe, and listen."
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"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."
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"The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason."
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"Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time."And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert " you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it's more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you're trying to find a specific flower, Gaiman said. "Anyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they're doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they're doing."
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"A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study."
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"They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them."
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"I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database " flat and full of useless info."
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