Quotes about knowledge
knowledge soul desire
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind. Lord Kelvin
knowledge progress guarantees
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.
knowledge foundation remember
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe. Lord Chesterfield
knowledge giving credit
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
knowledge pockets watches
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
knowledge ifs knows
If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it. Malcolm Forbes
knowledge boss ifs
Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.
knowledge giving salvation
It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation. Mahatma Gandhi
knowledge giving today
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
knowledge answers hardest
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Northrop Frye
knowledge heart journey
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another. Norman Mailer
knowledge men despair
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. Orlando Aloysius Battista
knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.
knowledge men self
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. Novalis
knowledge keeping-secrets alchemist
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets. Eric S. Raymond
knowledge wish trust-yourself
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself. Epictetus
knowledge math logic
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. Henri Poincare
knowledge men differences
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. Henry Ford
knowledge people desire
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Hilary Mantel
knowledge people understanding
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. Heraclitus
knowledge newspapers miscellaneous
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. Henry Ward Beecher
knowledge body hungry
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
knowledge race progress
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
knowledge age poison
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
knowledge intelligent people
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
knowledge men thinking
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
knowledge ideas growth
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
knowledge voice nations
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
knowledge men doe
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
knowledge mediocrity genius
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
knowledge understood possessed
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
knowledge doubt greater
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
knowledge belief ends
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.