Quotes about knowledge
knowledge-of-god vices example
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. John Jewel
knowledge blind deaf
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? John Heywood
knowledge hands people
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
knowledge learning management
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.
knowledge two style
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. Neil Gaiman
knowledge science information
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt
knowledgeable position activity
Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating. John Thain
knowledge two common-sense
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it. John Searle
knowledge uniforms done
The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done. Mark Peters
knowledge ultimate
Knowledge is our ultimate good. Socrates
knowledge knows
I know what I do not know.
knowledge thinking swans
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.
knowledge knowing true-knowledge
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
knowledge limits creation
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. Theodor Adorno
knowledge confucianism chinese-philosophy
Happiness exist when you don't know a thing The Weeknd
knowledge wonder worst
It was better to know the worst than to wonder. Margaret Mitchell
knowledge learning reality
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us. Margaret J. Wheatley
knowledge learning diversity
A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.
knowledge zen-proverb knows
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. Michael Lewis
knowledge men mind
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied. Michael Faraday
knowledge secret mind
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. Ray Bradbury
knowledge light heaven
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau
knowledge wells knows
It is well for one to know more than he says Plautus
knowledge may masters
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good. Plato
knowledge people pleasure
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
knowledge together tongue
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
knowledge sake moments
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
knowledge buying meat
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
knowledge glad
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
knowledge giving quests
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. James Jeans
knowledge jeans rivers
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
knowledge fog together
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.
knowledge men errors
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce