Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rufus Choate

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Robert James Waller

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...

Robertson Davies

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

William Blake

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Werner Heisenberg

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

Werner Heisenberg

Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.

Werner Erhard

Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.

Werner Erhard

All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: "What We Know", "What We Know That We Don't Know", and "What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."

Samuel Beckett

Enough to know no knowing.

Samuel Butler

If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.

Samuel Butler

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Rudolf Steiner

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Rudolf Steiner

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

Rudolf Steiner

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

William Congreve

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

William Cowper

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

William Arthur Ward

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Stefan Zweig

But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Thomas Hobbes

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

Thomas Hobbes

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Thomas Kuhn

Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

Horace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Herbie Hancock

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbert Spencer

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herman Melville

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Herman Melville

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.