Knowledge Quotes - Page 41

Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Acknowledge people, not their jobs.