Quotes about knowledge
knowledge heart mind
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Anatole France
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
knowledge learning ideas
The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas.
knowledge learning mind
Problems only exist in the human mind.
knowledge knowing giving
many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken. Anna Letitia Barbauld
knowledge kind certain
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Ambrose Bierce
knowledge men consolation
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
knowledge thinking glad
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. Alice Walker
knowledge peaceful people ruin sleeping
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day. Rachel Nichols
knowledge technical worked
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry. Richard King
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 civilization way
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. Dorothy L. Sayers
knowledge our-world quests
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. Dora Russell
knowledge men ideas
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength. Dwight D. Eisenhower
knowledge science men
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. Claude Bernard
knowledge science yield
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.
knowledge science men
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
knowledge achieve knows
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
knowledge harm ifs
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others. Dalai Lama
knowledge wells
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else. Dante Alighieri
knowledge men divine-comedy
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
knowledge data understanding
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll
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.