Quotes about knowledge
knowledge light heaven
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau
knowledge equality thinking
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. Malcolm X
knowledge sun devotion
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. Mahatma Gandhi
knowledge dust scientist
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
knowledge dry action
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
knowledge three dry
The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
knowledge giving moral-strength
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
knowledge tests fruit
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
knowledge devotion
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.
knowledge telescopes instruments
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. Johannes Kepler
knowledge eye men
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.
knowledge men errors
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
knowledge loss dark
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works. Laurence Sterne
knowledge mind action
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. Friedrich August von Hayek
knowledge men civilization
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.
knowledge use knows
We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is. Ludwig Wittgenstein
knowledge ends acknowledgement
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
knowledge mind stones
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
knowledge men desire
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. Luc de Clapiers
knowledge science agents
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body. Louis Pasteur
knowledge jewels curiosity
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. Lord Chesterfield
knowledge men shining
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.
knowledge math mind
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. John Arbuthnot
knowledge price workers
You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.
knowledge loyalty price pride workers
You can't put a price on loyalty to the city. You can't put a price on pride at work. . . . You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.
knowledge people trouble
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. Mark Twain
knowledge last
All we know is what we got from last year's club. Our knowledge of them is very limited.
knowledge ownership pure regard
All I know, with regard to the car, is that he doesn't have ownership of the car. I do not have any knowledge of the investigation at all. Anything else would be pure speculation.
knowledge
Knowledge is only potential power. Napoleon Hill
knowledge answers hardest
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Northrop Frye
knowledge heart journey
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another. Norman Mailer
knowledge men despair
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. Orlando Aloysius Battista
knowledge men self
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. Novalis