Quotes about knowledge
knowledge men relief
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Francis Bacon
knowledge concurrence
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
knowledge science air
Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air. Frances Wright
knowledge reality scientist
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. George Wald
knowledge gay men
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.
knowledge may might
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. George Santayana
knowledge together steps
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
knowledge men blow
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. George Meredith
knowledge science men
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility. G. H. Hardy
knowledge science simplicity
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
knowledge intelligent men
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
knowledge commitment learning
An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations. Fernando Flores
knowledge tree guilt
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Henry Miller
knowledge world construction
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. Helen Keller
knowledge thinking trying
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
knowledge clubs meat
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. George Horace Lorimer
knowledge air breathing
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air. Isaac Newton
knowledge matter causes
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
knowledge learning giving
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. Isabel Allende
knowledge matter impulse
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. Friedrich Nietzsche
knowledge theory triumphant
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
knowledge bounds
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
knowledge knowing opinion
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
knowledge littles connections
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done. Jennifer Stone
knowledge reality people
If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.
knowledge civilization want
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge George Will
knowledge roots tree
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose. George S. Patton
knowledge law secret
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. George Boole
knowledge ignorance man-and-superman
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. George Bernard Shaw
knowledge able action
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
knowledge fundamentals assumption
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
knowledge man-and-superman activity
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
knowledge people gossip
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.