Quotes about knowledge
knowledge years knows
We won't know for a few years. Stephen Hawking
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 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 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 penetration knows
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. Victor Hugo
knowledge strange asks
Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else. Richard Bach
knowledge distrust manifest
... I distrust manifest knowledge. Rita Mae Brown
knowledge knows
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. Rene Descartes
knowledge college looks
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. Thomas Huxley
knowledge metaphysics
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. Thomas de Quincey
knowledge men envy
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Thomas Browne
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 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-and-wisdom
Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity. Trudi Canavan
knowledge-and-power evil knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. Veronica Roth
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 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