Quotes about knowledge
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
knowledge knows
The more I know the less tortured I am. Alanis Morissette
knowledge talking attention
You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about. David McCullough
knowledge missing facts
The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
knowledge science wish
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. Carl Sagan
knowledge science stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
knowledge past political
You have to know the past to understand the present.
knowledge science thinking
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
knowledge ifs knows
Not if I know myself at all. Charles Lamb
knowledge men may
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
knowledge men primitive-man
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. Charles Baudelaire
knowledge past answers
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it. Charlie Munger
knowledge space brain
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. Charles Scott Sherrington
knowledge men knowing
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. Charles Sanders Peirce
knowledge knowing doe
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.
knowledge science measurement
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. Charles Francis Richter
knowledge conscience
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. Francois Rabelais
knowledge
If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic. Neil Harbisson
knowledge littles sometimes
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know. Bernard Malamud
knowledge known knows
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known. Benjamin Whichcote
knowledge limited signed
With the limited knowledge I have of the situation, I would not have signed the petition. W. S. Gilbert
knowledge ignorance darkness
I say there is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare
knowledge men want
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. Bertrand Russell
knowledge too-late live-and-learn
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live. Carolyn Wells
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Carlos Castaneda
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
knowledge
We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.
knowledge relationship
We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,
knowledge knowing hands
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other. Agnes Repplier
knowledge numbers challenges
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation. Carl Jung