Quotes about knowledge
knowledge-and-power regulation truth-is
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth. Michel Foucault
knowledge inspired urges
I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know. Michael J. Fox
knowledge increase hopefully
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L'Amour
knowledge were-meant-to-be meant-to-be
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
knowledge self behavior
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. Michel de Montaigne
knowledge men libertarian
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
knowledge ideas pairs
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
knowledge drug decay
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
knowledge otters rose
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter. Mark Twain
knowledge
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
knowledge trying
My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that. Daisy Ridley
knowledge straw worth
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn. William Butler Yeats
knowledge learning somebody street technical
Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve. Bob Berg
knowledge offer practice scriptures strict study vows yoga
Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics with strict vows offer their study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.
knowledge
I will read anything rather than work. Jean Kerr
knowledge self needs
It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we? Erwin Schrodinger
knowledge men
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work. Francis of Assisi
knowledge knowing essentials
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected. Francis Bacon
knowledge order
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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 thinking trying
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
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 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 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. Friedrich Nietzsche
knowledge love trains
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. Darin Strauss
knowledge science perception
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. Bertrand Russell
knowledge brain potatoes
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? Henry David Thoreau
knowledge men virtue
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
knowledge dark history
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
knowledge history might
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
knowledge men progress
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posteriry; for knowledge is to be aquired only by corresponding experience. How can be know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
knowledge men earth
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. Hannah Arendt
knowledge knows
Not to know is the beginning of wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti