“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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.
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”
“He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.”
“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
“I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.”
“Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.”
“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?”
“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”
“So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.”
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
“Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”