Quotes about knowledge
knowledge were-meant-to-be meant-to-be
Knowledge was meant to be shared. Louis L'Amour
knowledge known knows
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. Mark Twain
knowledge people world
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
knowledge doors superstitions
when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. Mary Roberts Rinehart
knowledge age demand
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved. Marshall McLuhan
knowledge self behavior
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. Michel de Montaigne
knowledge men libertarian
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
knowledge ideas pairs
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
knowledge drug decay
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
knowledge otters rose
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
knowledge science rainbow
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
knowledge use anger-and-fear
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. Frank Oz
knowledge slippers fool
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.] Francois Rabelais
knowledge answers knows
One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know. Gertrude Stein
knowledge science air
Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air. Frances Wright
knowledge reality scientist
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. George Wald
knowledge gay men
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.
knowledge may might
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. George Santayana
knowledge together steps
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
knowledge men blow
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. George Meredith
knowledge science men
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility. G. H. Hardy
knowledge science simplicity
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
knowledge intelligent men
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
knowledge matter impulse
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. Friedrich Nietzsche
knowledge theory triumphant
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
knowledge helping-others people
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. John Ruskin
knowledge all-things knows
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. John Owen
knowledge firsts knows
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. John Milton
knowledge israel battle
They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements. Norman Finkelstein
knowledge tools brushes
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes. Robert Henri
knowledge learning use
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. Edward de Bono
knowledge learning management
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
knowledge complaining absurd
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton