Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Anne Porter

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

Karen Armstrong

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.

Joseph Conrad

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

John Keats

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

John Keats

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Lucian

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

Lord Kelvin

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.

Lord Kelvin

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

Lord Chesterfield

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Lord Chesterfield

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

Lord Chesterfield

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

Malcolm Forbes

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Karl Kraus

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

Juvenal

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Joyce Cary

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Owen Arthur

Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge.

Haruki Murakami

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

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.

John Arbuthnot

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.

You can't put a price on loyalty to the city. You can't put a price on pride at work. . . . You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.

Matthew Arnold

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ...

Edward de Bono

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward de Bono

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

John F. Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Jonas Salk

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?