Quotes about knowledge
knowledge way firsts
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it. Samuel Johnson
knowledge laughing mechanic
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
knowledge advice principles
Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
knowledge understanding able
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.
knowledge men age
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
knowledge fire desire
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
knowledge curiosity might
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
knowledge fame knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power as well as fame. Rufus Choate
knowledge zeal
Zeal will do more than knowledge. William Hazlitt
knowledge ignorance acquisition
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. Wendell Berry
knowledge spirit modern
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. Walter Pater
knowledge special able
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge. W. Somerset Maugham
knowledge expression littles
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. Vladimir Nabokov
knowledge giving occupation
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work. William Osler
knowledge players silly suggest
Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it. Maurice Cheeks
knowledge last men merely passions
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
knowledge people seeking
If you get knowledge, you can't keep your knowledge away from people seeking help, ... These are our people.
knowledge province taken
I have taken all knowledge to be my province Francis Bacon
knowledge
I have no knowledge of that being in doubt. Brian Cashman
knowledge
I have no knowledge of it. I wasn't here.
knowledge opinion passing point seen truth wants worked
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear. Martin Seligman
knowledge
I had no knowledge of commitments to anyone.
knowledge wisdom
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
knowledge
Their in-house knowledge of how to do these things is very, very good.
knowledge knowing soul
The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience. Neale Donald Walsch
knowledge creativity land
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create. Marcel Proust
knowledge desire tiny
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
knowledge men next
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison
knowledge men literature
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
knowledge shadow
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? Khalil Gibran
knowledge body soil
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
knowledge myth opposite poetry saying simply truth
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson
knowledge light heaven
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau