Top 34 Curse Of Knowledge Quotes
#1. Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
Chip Heath
#2. The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
Chip Heath
#3. Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
Steven Pinker
#4. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.
Steven Pinker
#5. Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
Thomas Huxley
#6. The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.
Joseph Delaney
#7. Heir did go to America, with the Fairfax heir or about the same time - but disappeared - somewhere in the wilds of Virginia, got married, end began to breed savages for the Claimant
Mark Twain
#8. how to wear a red cord tied around my left wrist to keep away the ones who only saw you as a single step, rather than a destination.
Jodi Picoult
#9. We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
Anne Rice
#10. Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi
#11. Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
Frank Herbert
#12. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
Cher
#13. For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.
Mary E. Pearson
#14. Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing less than the curse of consciousness. Of moral responsibility. Of always, ever after, having to choose between what is right and what is wrong.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#16. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
Jonah Lehrer
#17. Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.
Vironika Tugaleva
#19. The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
Billy Graham
#20. Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Tom Hodgkinson
#21. Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
Jules Verne
#22. I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
Judd Apatow
#23. It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
Ed Harris
#24. I want to know who I am before it is too late - before I am no longer the same person - before I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are others when it seems to matter not a tinker's curse.
Alan Bradley
#25. Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery.
Rick Riordan
#26. People can hate you or curse you, but if you love, then nothing can touch you.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Jessica Khoury
#28. Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Maria Edgeworth
#29. Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.
Edgar Allan Poe
#31. The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.
David Wroblewski
#32. Religion is most often a curse;
it teaches us to hate others.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.
Rumi
#34. Knowledge can be a curse.
The moment you gain it, you thirst for more.
Ameera Al Hakawati