Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Horace Mann

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Horace Mann

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Horace Mann

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Horace Mann

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

Horace Mann

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Philippe Petit

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

Enrico Fermi

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Hippocrates

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Hippocrates

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

Hippocrates

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Isaac Newton

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Isaac Newton

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

Isabel Allende

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

But I don't have any other knowledge of that topic.

Hannah More

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Guy Kawasaki

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.

Francis Bacon

I have taken all knowledge to be my province

I want the knowledge and know-how to lead others to success.

David Lynch

It's knowledge in terms of the self and it works wonders in children,

Mao Zedong

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Madeleine L'Engle

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

John F. Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Jonas Salk

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

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.

Pope John Paul II

Know what you are talking about.

Plotinus

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.