Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Andrew Carnegie

the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.

Annika Sorenstam

That was local knowledge. If I had never seen that putt before, I wouldn't have played enough break.

William Shakespeare

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

Those are tendentious words without knowledge of the facts.

Srikumar Rao

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Ron Wood

who could have talked about how she operated her office, how she treated her people, and testified to their knowledge of her using them for things other than official business.

Eric Gill

There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.

Ray Stevens

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

James Thurber

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

James Mackintosh

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

James M. Barrie

I am not young enough to know everything.

John Dos Passos

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

John Denham

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Dewey

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

John Dewey

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

John Calvin

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Francois Fenelon

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I know everything except myself.

Edward de Bono

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward de Bono

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Hermann von Helmholtz

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

Hermann Hesse

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Khalil Gibran

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge is only potential power.

Lucian

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.