Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramana Maharshi

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Ralph Cudworth

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Don't let what we know stand in the way of what we could know.

Eric Gill

There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.

Michio Kaku

I think that by creating a world of plenty, by creating institutions and organizations that promote knowledge and promote understanding, I think I could be part of being in a better world.

Suzanne Somers

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Al Michaels

With his wealth of experience, and the knowledge he's obviously accumulated through the years, Emmitt Smith would be a much smarter runner at this point of his career.

To my knowledge, yes. I don't think any of us are marked out. But to my knowledge, I believe, yes, he's out of the picture on that.

To my knowledge this is the first time we've taken somebody to court. We've never seen anything this large.

Peter Agre

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

To my knowledge, there hasn't been one yet.

These retirements represent a significant loss of institutional knowledge.

Woody Allen

Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

The staff is knowledgeable about the situation and is prepared,

Yotam Ottolenghi

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

D. H. Lawrence

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

Trudi Canavan

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Paul Valery

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Mary Daly

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.