Quotes about knowledge
knowledge love mainly power pursuit
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power Bertrand Russell
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge possession labor
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. Samuel Smiles
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength. Robert Southey
knowledge men ends
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. Robert Penn Warren
knowledge science thinking
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. Robert M. Pirsig
knowledge independent learning
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
knowledge quality depth
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Walt Whitman
knowledge wish knows
I wish I knew what I know now before. Rod Stewart
knowledge mean understanding
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows. Warren G. Bennis
knowledge way ems
We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening. Will Rogers
knowledge purple belief
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling
knowledge perfect world
Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build. Yuri Kochiyama
knowledge people chaos
For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos. Zhuangzi
knowledge life-is limitless
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
knowledge littles dangerous
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
knowledge imagination fool
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. William Arthur Ward
knowledge learning men
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire
knowledge men tree
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable. William Ralph Inge
knowledge people towns
There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them. Will Carleton
knowledge science years
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window. Winston Churchill
knowledge learning imagination
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
knowledge thinking execution
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
knowledge-and-power evil knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. Veronica Roth
knowledge views curiosity
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
knowledge numbers research
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.
knowledge people age
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
knowledge reality ideas
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.