All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Comedy doesn’t makes your IQ higher…….Read Science… and don’t re-read books for higher IQ!”

“Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction”

“What we need to know can only be experienced.”

“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past. It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken, when we to stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey. It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses, combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s no more than the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.”

“the problem of a worker in today’s knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. … In order to learn anything, we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.”

“I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.”

“As muscles waste with no gravity or strain so is our minds when there is no mental challenge or substance to digest”

“Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.”

“Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain…”

“…[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, …accomplishes… little… [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it.”

“You know what I’m sick of? Using my brain. All day long it’s people and words and stress and meetings and books that you don’t remember you’re not really into until you open them on the train home and compromise and sometimes I just want to look at a picture of a dress. Followed by a picture of some cupcakes. And then a kitten.”

“The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.”

“To fix hearts one must know one’s own.”

“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a way, absolutistic one-valued statements. But when we fight absolutism, we quite often establish, instead, some other dogma equally silly and harmful. For instance, an active atheist is psycho-logically as unsound as a rabid theist.”

“The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.”