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Wednesday 24th of April 2024

Knowledge The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline. Leonard Bernstein © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Knowledge He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were not the same. The first could be remedied with a little patience and a lot of hard work. And the latter? “Well, I guess you're up shit creek without a paddle.” J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, on his grandfather © 2016 Kwiple.com
Knowledge It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge Nobody knows anything. William Goldman, on the impossibility of predicting whether a movie will be a commercial success © 2024 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We are able to ask perfectly natural geometric questions that we can't answer. Moreover, we can prove  that they are unanswerable. In other works, we can know that something is unknowable. Maybe this is not so depressing after all – it's a pretty amazing human accomplishment! Paul Lockhart, Measurement © 2017 Kwiple.com
Knowledge If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was & never will be. Thomas Jefferson  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. Mary Catherine Bateson © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Knowledge We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster. Carl Sagan © 2016 Kwiple.com