Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

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.

Miguel de Unamuno

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Nelson Mandela

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

Oliver North

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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.

Mark Twain

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Ogni nostra cognitione prīcipia da sentimēti. All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Leonardo da Vinci

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Learned Hand

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

Laurence Olivier

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Larry Page

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

Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

J. M. Coetzee

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

Ray Bradbury

From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Michael Polanyi

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

Michael Polanyi

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Socrates

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates

I know what I do not know.

Socrates

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.