Famous Quotes & Sayings

Galileo Galilei

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.

Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Franz Kafka

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Enrico Fermi

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

But I don't have any other knowledge of that topic.

Hannah More

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Guy Kawasaki

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.

Mayor Coble likes to talk about the knowledge economy. Maybe what we need first is more knowledge about how to plan and manage public works projects.

Darin Strauss

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Leroy Hood

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

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.

Ronde Barber

We have some knowledge of Marcus Robinson from his time in Chicago, and then they've got that rookie Troy Williamson . We haven't seen a lot of him, but we do know he's a straight-line blazer, so we have to be ready for that.

You just can't replace his knowledge of the game.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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.

George Herbert

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

Byron White

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

C. Everett Koop

The best prescription is knowledge.

Frank Oz

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Francois Rabelais

What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

Gertrude Stein

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

Horace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Herbie Hancock

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbert Spencer

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herman Melville

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.