Quotes about knowledge
knowledge water stones
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. Sylvia Fraser
knowledge learning pissed-off
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. Tom Peters
knowledge learning tree
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!' Stephen Covey
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
knowledge years knows
We won't know for a few years.
knowledge thinking years
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
knowledge men poetry
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. Sigmund Freud
knowledge intellectual manipulation
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
knowledge views ears
One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge. Robert Browning
knowledge answers may
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat. Richard Hamming
knowledge men littles
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. T. S. Eliot
knowledge organized-life too-much-information
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
knowledge technology information
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
knowledge brain
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. Sydney J. Harris
knowledge thinking ideas
One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck. Scott Adams
knowledge light boss
Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.
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.