Quotes about knowledge
knowledge world inference
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. Ronald Fisher
knowledge science form
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. Ronald Fisher
knowledge information
Fear is where the information is. Sally Field
knowledge world mythology
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes
knowledge men thinking
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. Susan Glaspell
knowledge thinking years
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go. Studs Terkel
knowledge greek know-thyself
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] Solon
knowledge mean clothes
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge. Steve Jobs
knowledge
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred Peter Senge
knowledge positive-thinking learning
The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge soul known
All things are known to the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge understanding taught
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge science self
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge roots progress
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge men spirit
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge facts chiefs
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge use reason
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge mind
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge self individuality
Be that self which one truly is. Soren Kierkegaard
knowledge winter thinking
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. Stephen Vincent Benet
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
knowledge remarks
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
knowledge hands law
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. Robert Andrews Millikan
knowledge thinking experts
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. Robert A. Heinlein
knowledge learning important
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. Tim O'Reilly
knowledge useless-things useless-stuff
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy