Quotes about knowledge
knowledge elegance
Knowledge is the only elegance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowledge men world
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Thomas Aquinas
knowledge thinking way
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. Lewis Carroll
knowledge men quests
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. Karl Popper
knowledge stupidity rooms
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge. Karl Kraus
knowledge pay-the-price wish
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. Juvenal
knowledge men tragedy
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. Joyce Cary
knowledge way expertise
Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge. Owen Arthur
knowledge people realization
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. Paramahansa Yogananda
knowledge world blind
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity. Paul Valery
knowledge mean thinking
Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves. Karen Armstrong
knowledge men sea
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground. Elisha Gray
knowledge thinking wild-life
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also. John Burroughs
knowledge animal years
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own. Louis Agassiz
knowledge-experience genuine pears
All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong
knowledge truth-is eternal
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. Madeleine L'Engle
knowledge understanding way
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
knowledge science thinking
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy
knowledge thinking world
I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge? Jonas Salk
knowledge knowing-everything age
I am not young enough to know everything. James M. Barrie
knowledge doors perception
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison
knowledge blind deaf
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? John Heywood
knowledge mind rewards
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. John Henry Newman
knowledge intellectual together
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge..
knowledge relief idiot
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability. John H. Johnson
knowledge men views
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants. John Dos Passos
knowledge trying knows
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. John Denham
knowledge wings imagination
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. John Dewey
knowledge mean doe
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.
knowledge perfect people
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. Francois Fenelon
knowledge thinking common-sense
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright
knowledge self-knowledge knows
I know everything except myself.
knowledge knows
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. Lucian