Quotes about knowledge
knowledge talking knowing-jesus
Know what you are talking about. Pope John Paul II
knowledge mean illumination
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. Plotinus
knowledge want causes
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others. Pliny the Elder
knowledge keys heaven
He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven. Nathaniel Parker Willis
knowledge fields experts
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. Moshe Dayan
knowledge strange asks
Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else. Richard Bach
knowledge distrust manifest
... I distrust manifest knowledge. Rita Mae Brown
knowledge knows
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. Rene Descartes
knowledge college looks
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. Thomas Huxley
knowledge metaphysics
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. Thomas de Quincey
knowledge men envy
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Thomas Browne
knowledge quality depth
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Walt Whitman
knowledge wish knows
I wish I knew what I know now before. Rod Stewart
knowledge people scary
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so. Satchel Paige
knowledge soothing continuity
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing. Sandra Bernhard
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
knowledge solitude may
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Samuel Johnson
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
knowledge men wife
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.
knowledge mean mind
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge-and-power evil knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. Veronica Roth
knowledge views curiosity
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
knowledge numbers research
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.
knowledge people age
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
knowledge reality ideas
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.
knowledge way firsts
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
knowledge laughing mechanic
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
knowledge advice principles
Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
knowledge understanding able
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.
knowledge men age
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
knowledge fire desire
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
knowledge curiosity might
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.