Quotes about Knowledge
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You`d be surprised how far that gets you.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
Nobody understands the world they`re in, but some people are better off at it than others.
From the moment we are born we are presented with absolute facts rather than situated ones. We aren`t taught that distinctions such as young and old or healthy and unhealthy are social constructions and that their meaning depends on context. We are conditioned to learn about and see the world as a set of facts, such as 1 + 1 = 2. The world is far more subtle than such facts allow, and we should have learned that 1 + 1=2 only if we are using the base 10 number system, but that it equals 10 if the number system is base 2, and that 1 + 1 = 1 if we are adding one wad of chewing gum to one wad of chewing gum.
That which seems intuitive to us now is the result of scientific and philosophical elaborations in the past.
Don`t take your intuitions and ideas to be "natural": they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don`t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don`t know we don`t know.