Quotes about knowledge
knowledge technology fog
The fog of information can drive out knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
knowledge eye dark
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves. D. H. Lawrence
knowledge goal consciousness
The goal is to know how not-to-know.
knowledge eye sight
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.
knowledge library way
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett
knowledge reflection half
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Alexander Pope
knowledge bliss virtue
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
knowledge writing fruit
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
knowledge simple research
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
knowledge successful editors
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.
knowledge cows sacred
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
knowledge science giving
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding E. M. Forster
knowledge learning night
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded. Dylan Thomas
knowledge doubt contention
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. Claude Levi-Strauss
knowledge learning people
People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new. Daniel Quinn
knowledge imagination buried
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings
knowledge may limits
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
knowledge mind great-minds
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. Dan Brown
knowledge learning roots
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. Confucius
knowledge knows
What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.
knowledge-learning silent satiety
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
knowledge learning thinking
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
knowledge mean learning
Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.
knowledge two way
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work. David Cheriton
knowledge knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know. David Byrne
knowledge harm ifs
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others. Dalai Lama
knowledge thinking people
I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible. Anderson Cooper
knowledge trying knows
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
knowledge fighting class
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization. Amartya Sen
knowledge trying answers
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. Angela Carter
knowledge science men
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. Anatole France
knowledge heart mind
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
knowledge-of-god humans ultimate
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know. Anthony de Mello