Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Brown

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Confucius

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

What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.

Confucius

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

Ambrose Bierce

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

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Alice Walker

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Albert Hofmann

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Albert Camus

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Albert Camus

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Angela Carter

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Anatole France

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Anatole France

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

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.

Richard Bach

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

Rita Mae Brown

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Rene Descartes

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

Thomas Huxley

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas de Quincey

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Thomas Browne

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

T. S. Eliot

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Scott Adams

One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

Scott Adams

Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Robert Henri

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Simon Newcomb

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.