Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I know everything except myself.

Elisha Gray

A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

John Burroughs

[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.

Louis Agassiz

It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

Mao Zedong

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Madeleine L'Engle

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Leo Szilard

I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

Lewis Carroll

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Karl Popper

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

John Locke

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

John Locke

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Jim Rohn

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Jim Rohn

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

Jim Rohn

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

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.