Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Henri Poincare

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

Henry Ford

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Hilary Mantel

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Heraclitus

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Henry Ward Beecher

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Khalil Gibran

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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.