Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

Marcel Proust

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

Marcel Proust

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

James Jeans

...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

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

James Jeans

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.

James Joyce

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Laurence Sterne

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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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.

Marilynne Robinson

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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.

All we know is what we got from last year's club. Our knowledge of them is very limited.

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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?

Luc de Clapiers

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.

Louis Pasteur

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.

Lord Chesterfield

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

Lord Chesterfield

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.