Quotes about knowledge
knowledge desire tiny
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. Marcel Proust
knowledge men next
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison
knowledge men literature
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
knowledge thinking knowing
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
knowledge wish enough
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
knowledge less
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know. Ray Stevens
knowledge salvation
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
knowledge information written
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. James Thurber
knowledge self-knowledge
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. James Mackintosh
knowledge men self
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. Novalis
knowledge keeping-secrets alchemist
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets. Eric S. Raymond
knowledge wish trust-yourself
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself. Epictetus
knowledge science mind
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose. Hermann von Helmholtz
knowledge views law
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.
knowledge practice theory
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Hermann Hesse
knowledge math logic
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. Henri Poincare
knowledge men differences
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. Henry Ford
knowledge people desire
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Hilary Mantel
knowledge people understanding
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. Heraclitus
knowledge newspapers miscellaneous
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. Henry Ward Beecher
knowledge body hungry
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
knowledge race progress
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
knowledge age poison
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.
knowledge intelligent people
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
knowledge men thinking
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
knowledge ideas growth
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
knowledge voice nations
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
knowledge men doe
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
knowledge mediocrity genius
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
knowledge understood possessed
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
knowledge doubt greater
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
knowledge belief ends
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
knowledge shadow
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? Khalil Gibran