Quotes about knowledge
knowledge men views
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. Aristotle
knowledge hands knowing
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
knowledge unqualified eternity
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
knowledge intuition source
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
knowledge larger longer
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
knowledge degrees awareness
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.
knowledge commodity used
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel J. Boorstin
knowledge
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. Josh Billings
knowledge lives medium properties takes
With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network. David Weinberger
knowledge
The little I know I owe to my ignorance. Sacha Guitry
knowledge matter offered overlooked people politics rest surprised truth turned
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me. Wayne Newton
knowledge mean surgeon valuable
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. Ben Carson
knowledge money
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge. bell hooks
knowledge dominion excellent
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Alexander the Great
knowledgeable-person silence three
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
knowledge enough knows
I know enough now to know I know nothing. Amy Poehler
knowledge lack
Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.
knowledge learned men
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
knowledge heart soul
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare
knowledge ourselves
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
knowledge paid saying
We're not shading. We're not hiding. We're just saying what we know. And to our knowledge, no one was paid by anyone. David Cook
knowledge
Knowledge is limited. Albert Einstein
knowledge discovery mind
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
knowledge-and-power impossible emotion
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. Alfred North Whitehead
knowledge passion men
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
knowledge might wells
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not. Alfred Korzybski
knowledge men her-beauty
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. Alfred Lord Tennyson
knowledge virtue knows
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are. Aldous Huxley
knowledge science darkness
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
knowledge discovery self
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
knowledge men desire
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
knowledge differences people
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
knowledge percent
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison