Quotes about knowledge
knowledge winter thinking
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird. Stephen Vincent Benet
knowledge people littles
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none. Thomas a Kempis
knowledge remarks
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
knowledge hands law
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. Robert Andrews Millikan
knowledge thinking experts
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. Robert A. Heinlein
knowledge learning important
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. Tim O'Reilly
knowledge useless-things useless-stuff
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
knowledge water stones
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. Sylvia Fraser
knowledge learning pissed-off
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. Tom Peters
knowledge learning tree
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!' Stephen Covey
knowledge ratios increase
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. Thomas Carlyle
knowledge passion experience
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
knowledge men ignorant
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
knowledge mean animal
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training. Steve Martin
knowledge learning thinking
I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people. Steve Ballmer
knowledge science thinking
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws. Stephen Hawking
knowledge years knows
We won't know for a few years.
knowledge thinking years
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
knowledge men poetry
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. Sigmund Freud
knowledge intellectual manipulation
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
knowledge views ears
One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge. Robert Browning
knowledge answers may
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat. Richard Hamming
knowledge men littles
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. T. S. Eliot
knowledge organized-life too-much-information
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
knowledge technology information
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
knowledge brain
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. Sydney J. Harris
knowledge thinking ideas
One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck. Scott Adams
knowledge light boss
Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.
knowledge curves able
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth. Konrad Lorenz
knowledge men order
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
knowledge opportunity empowering
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. Kofi Annan
knowledge ignorance diversity
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity. Ramakrishna