Quotes about knowledge
knowledge loss dark
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works. Laurence Sterne
knowledge mind action
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. Friedrich August von Hayek
knowledge men civilization
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.
knowledge use knows
We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is. Ludwig Wittgenstein
knowledge ends acknowledgement
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
knowledge mind stones
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
knowledge men desire
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. Luc de Clapiers
knowledge writing men
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Sherwood Anderson
knowledge knowing knows
They are so knowing, that they know nothing. Terence
knowledge capacity humans
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. Nicolas Chamfort
knowledge men victory
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis
knowledge mean essence
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner. Niels Bohr
knowledge ideas ties
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
knowledge order littles
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order...we take what we know a little too seriously.
knowledge math intuition
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. Morris Kline
knowledge math body
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
knowledge learning justice
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. John Ruskin
knowledge law facts
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
knowledge giving pleasure
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
knowledge myth opposite poetry saying simply truth
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson
knowledge last
All we know is what we got from last year's club. Our knowledge of them is very limited.
knowledge people trouble
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. Mark Twain
knowledge ownership pure regard
All I know, with regard to the car, is that he doesn't have ownership of the car. I do not have any knowledge of the investigation at all. Anything else would be pure speculation.
knowledge rust rich
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. Philip Sidney
knowledge action should
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
knowledge hands people
There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it. Peter Drucker
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
knowledge learning volunteer
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
knowledge learning two
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
knowledge tree forests
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
knowledge innovation tasks
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...
knowledge mean intuition
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp. Max Planck
knowledge science discovery
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.