Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: philosophy knowledge certainty doubt teeth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: ignorance learning knowledge work effort resentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are as many opinions as there are experts. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty opinions expertise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge competence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. —Galileo Galilei More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge obviousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty expertise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: understanding fear learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. —George Iles More about this quote Tags: knowledge science explanation superstition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: knowledge exactness precision vagueness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. —H. P. Lovecraft More about this quote Tags: mind knowledge comprehension correlation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: knowledge quotations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. —Donald Foster More about this quote Tags: mistakes knowledge error discover Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: education memory knowledge facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. —Wilson Mizner More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty foolishness suspicion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge certainty ridicule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email