Quotes About Prior Knowledge

#1. It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

Al Ries

#3. I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

Johnny Depp

#4. cherish what you have, for in an instant it can be gone. And when it's gone, let the memory not be a weight that drags you down, but a bright light leading you forward.

Juliet Marillier

#5. Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future...

RO Smit

#6. Whenever someone, on seeing something, realizes that that which he now sees wants to be like some other reality but falls short and cannot be like that other since it is inferior, do we agree that one who thinks this must have prior knowledge of that to which he says it is like, but deficiently so?

Plato

#7. There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.

J.I. Packer

#8. Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race. It is potential, not actual, and can only be appropriated by strenuous exertion.

Plato

#9. It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

Henry A. Kissinger

#10. God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#11. Furthermore, even these limited accomplishments should be obtained, Barbauld cautioned, "in a quiet and unobserved manner" for the display of knowledge by a woman is "punished with disgrace."6 Besides, the Monthly Review complained in a 1763 review, "intense thought spoils a lady's features."7

Karen Swallow Prior

#12. For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

Jacques Ellul

#13. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Robert Barr

#14. rationalist believes in reason as the primary source of knowledge, and he may also believe that man has certain innate ideas that exist in the mind prior to all experience. And the clearer such ideas may be, the more certain it is that they correspond to reality. You

Jostein Gaarder

#15. Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.

Lynn Jurich

#16. The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.

Victor J. Stenger

#17. Nearly every female that crossed Cage's path fell immediately into a big bucket of fucking stupid.

Madeline Sheehan

#18. As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

Nonito Donaire

#19. How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is underived.

J. Budziszewski

#20. I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

R.A. Lafferty

#21. The greatest clinicians who I know seem to have a sixth sense for biases. They understand, almost instinctively, when prior bits of scattered knowledge apply to their patients - but, more important, when they don't apply to their patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#22. But laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

Neal Shusterman