Quotes about knowledge
knowledge views curiosity
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. Samuel Johnson
knowledge numbers research
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.
knowledge people age
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
knowledge reality ideas
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.
knowledge way firsts
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
knowledge laughing mechanic
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
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 science thinking
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. Robert M. Pirsig
knowledge independent learning
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
knowledge quality depth
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Walt Whitman
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
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.
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 remarks
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
knowledge simple discovery
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. Simon Newcomb
knowledge ratios increase
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. Thomas Carlyle
knowledge passion experience
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
knowledge men ignorant
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
knowledge mean animal
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training. Steve Martin
knowledge learning thinking
I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people. Steve Ballmer
knowledge science thinking
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws. Stephen Hawking