Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Frank Zappa

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Frank Herbert

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Isaac Asimov

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Isaac Asimov

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Isaac Asimov

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Isaac Asimov

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

Immanuel Kant

There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Francis Quarles

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Horace

One cannot know everything.

Horace

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Horace Mann

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Horace Mann

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Horace Mann

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Horace Mann

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Horace Mann

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

Horace Mann

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

J. M. Coetzee

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

H. G. Wells

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

H. L. Mencken

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.