Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Larry Page

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

Mark Twain

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Marshall McLuhan

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

Michel de Montaigne

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Michel de Montaigne

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Mark Twain

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Frank Oz

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Francois Rabelais

What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

Gertrude Stein

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

Frances Wright

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

George Wald

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

George Wald

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

George Santayana

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether.

George Santayana

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

George Meredith

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

G. H. Hardy

It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.

G. H. Hardy

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

G. H. Hardy

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Neale Donald Walsch

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

Marcel Proust

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.