Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Arbuthnot

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

Michio Kaku

I think that by creating a world of plenty, by creating institutions and organizations that promote knowledge and promote understanding, I think I could be part of being in a better world.

Suzanne Somers

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

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.

Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

This is the first time I'm seeing this document. ... I have no knowledge of this.

Scott Adams

One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

Scott Adams

Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Robert Henri

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Sylvia Fraser

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Soren Kierkegaard

Be that self which one truly is.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

Stefan Zweig

But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Thomas Hobbes

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

Thomas Hobbes

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Thomas Kuhn

Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.

Woody Allen

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

William James

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Will Durant

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Warren G. Bennis

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard P. Feynman

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Satchel Paige

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Sandra Bernhard

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.