Quotes about knowledge
knowledge math idols
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. Arthur Eddington
knowledge theory amount
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
knowledge waiting lists
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.
knowledge law mind
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations. An intelligence, unacquainted with our universe, but acquainted with the system of thought by which the human mind interprets to itself the contents of its sensory experience, and should be able to attain all the knowledge of physics that we have attained by experiment.
knowledge should-have long
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation." Arthur Conan Doyle
knowledge doctors doe
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
knowledge may facts
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
knowledge data information
It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these. Arthur C. Clarke
knowledge technology practice
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
knowledge-wisdom
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. Barry White
knowledge sight information
We live by information, not by sight. Baltasar Gracian
knowledge greatness turns
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
knowledge delay height
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. Desiderius Erasmus
knowledge past years
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. Daniel H. Pink
knowledge creating dupes
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak. Clarence Day
knowledge knows
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so. Arthur Guiterman
knowledge games damage
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
knowledge knowing littles
Knowledge is knowing as little as possible. Charles Bukowski
knowledge men mind
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle. Brian Tracy
knowledge self-confidence students
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
knowledgeable
Become as knowledgeable as possible. Jane Goodall
knowledge heaven know-thyself
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. Juvenal
knowledge wish pay
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
knowledge ends knows
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
knowledge lost wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. T. S. Eliot
knowledge names giving
Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. William Shakespeare
knowledge learning charming
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public. Agnes Repplier
knowledge men
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. Charles Wagner
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.