Quotes about knowledge
knowledge thinking intuition
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge. Rudolf Steiner
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 curves able
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth. Konrad Lorenz
knowledge men order
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
knowledge opportunity empowering
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. Kofi Annan
knowledge ignorance diversity
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity. Ramakrishna
knowledge knows
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge. Ramana Maharshi
knowledge passion mind
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Cudworth
knowledge found reception
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge soul growth
Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
knowledge college professors
You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
knowledge thoughtful thinking
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?
knowledge science immense
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
knowledge class tragedy
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
knowledge years nobody-knows
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
knowledge elegance
Knowledge is the only elegance.
knowledge men world
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Thomas Aquinas
knowledge positive-thinking learning
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
knowledge reason-why vote
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.
knowledge men particular
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
knowledge soul known
All things are known to the soul.
knowledge understanding taught
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
knowledge science self
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
knowledge differences heaven
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
knowledge order unity
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
knowledge issues world
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
knowledge soul world
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
knowledge roots progress
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
knowledge men spirit
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
knowledge facts chiefs
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
knowledge use reason
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
knowledge mind
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
knowledge people littles
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none. Thomas a Kempis