Quotes about knowledge
knowledge fate knowing
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. Rick Riordan
knowledge tree library
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
knowledge ideas ends
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Remy de Gourmont
knowledge hands law
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. Robert Andrews Millikan
knowledge thinking experts
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. Robert A. Heinlein
knowledge knowing half
To ask the proper question is half of knowing Roger Bacon
knowledge math world
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
knowledge ratios increase
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. Thomas Carlyle
knowledge passion experience
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
knowledge men ignorant
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
knowledge mean animal
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training. Steve Martin
knowledge learning thinking
I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people. Steve Ballmer
knowledge science thinking
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws. Stephen Hawking
knowledge science form
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. Ronald Fisher
knowledge information
Fear is where the information is. Sally Field
knowledge world mythology
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes
knowledge men thinking
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. Susan Glaspell
knowledge thinking years
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go. Studs Terkel
knowledge greek know-thyself
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] Solon
knowledge mean clothes
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge. Steve Jobs
knowledge thinking heard
How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say? Stephen Fry
knowledge sun humans
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. Sri Aurobindo
knowledge thinking true-knowledge
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
knowledge faces
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
knowledge learning important
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. Tim O'Reilly
knowledge useless-things useless-stuff
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
knowledge world inference
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
knowledge achievement creative
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity. Stefan Zweig
knowledge knowing-everything cedars
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. Thomas B. Macaulay
knowledge done action
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done. Thomas Hobbes
knowledge two remembrance
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.
knowledge
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.