Quotes about knowledge
knowledge years nobody-knows
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge elegance
Knowledge is the only elegance.
knowledge men world
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Thomas Aquinas
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 fate knowing
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. Rick Riordan
knowledge tree library
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
knowledge ideas ends
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Remy de Gourmont
knowledge thinking heard
How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say? Stephen Fry
knowledge sun humans
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. Sri Aurobindo
knowledge thinking true-knowledge
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
knowledge faces
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
knowledge knowing half
To ask the proper question is half of knowing Roger Bacon
knowledge math world
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
knowledge eye men
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes. Thomas Jefferson
knowledge tools brushes
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes. Robert Henri
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge imagination discipline
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.
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 learning men
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire
knowledge men tree
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable. William Ralph Inge
knowledge people towns
There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them. Will Carleton
knowledge science years
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window. Winston Churchill
knowledge learning imagination
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
knowledge thinking execution
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
knowledge facts paranoid
A paranoid is someone who has all the facts. William S. Burroughs
knowledge-and-power soul progress
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous. Virchand Gandhi
knowledge ideas brain
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. Woodrow Wilson
knowledge rivers drink
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. Woody Allen
knowledge men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge facts humans
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it. William James
knowledge occupation life-is
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
knowledge knowledge-and-power liberty
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. Will Durant