“You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.”
Knowledge is power, but only if you do something with it. These quotes explore learning, expertise, wisdom, ignorance, and the lifelong project of trying to understand a world that keeps changing faster than you can study it.
“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”
“You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.”
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
“There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.”
“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
“Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.”
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
“The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.”