Quotes about knowledge
knowledge laughing mechanic
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. Samuel Johnson
knowledge advice principles
Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
knowledge understanding able
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.
knowledge men age
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
knowledge fire desire
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
knowledge curiosity might
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
knowledge fame knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power as well as fame. Rufus Choate
knowledge gypsy remember
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ... Robert James Waller
knowledge order healthy
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position. Robertson Davies
knowledge
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength. Robert Southey
knowledge men ends
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. Robert Penn Warren
knowledge experience action
The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake
knowledge reality clarity
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior. Werner Heisenberg
knowledge discipline research
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.
knowledge empty knows
Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything. Werner Erhard
knowledge three domain
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: "What We Know", "What We Know That We Don't Know", and "What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
knowledge knowing pessimism
Enough to know no knowing. Samuel Beckett
knowledge ice water
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom. Samuel Butler
knowledge thinking class
There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge-of-god instruments
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. Rudolf Steiner
knowledge thinking intuition
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
knowledge world firsts
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
knowledge firsts opinion
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first. William Congreve
knowledge men mind
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. William Cowper
knowledge imagination fool
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. William Arthur Ward
knowledge achievement creative
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. Stefan Zweig
knowledge knowing-everything cedars
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. Thomas B. Macaulay
knowledge done action
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done. Thomas Hobbes
knowledge two remembrance
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.
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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.
knowledge play community
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. Thomas Kuhn
knowledge penetration knows
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. Victor Hugo