Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge is only potential power.

Northrop Frye

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Norman Mailer

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

Mason Cooley

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

Mason Cooley

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

Mason Cooley

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

Mason Cooley

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

Marvin Minsky

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

Marvin Minsky

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Michel Foucault

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

Michel Foucault

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Michel Foucault

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

Michael J. Fox

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Marie Curie

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Theodore Zeldin

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Theodore Roethke

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Malcolm X

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Mahatma Gandhi

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Mahatma Gandhi

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Johannes Kepler

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

Johannes Kepler

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

James M. Barrie

I am not young enough to know everything.

Jim Morrison

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Eric Thomas

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power