Quotes about knowledge
knowledge information written
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. James Thurber
knowledge self-knowledge
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. James Mackintosh
knowledge learning use
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. Edward de Bono
knowledge learning management
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
knowledge complaining absurd
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
knowledge men doe
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
knowledge science mind
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose. Hermann von Helmholtz
knowledge views law
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.
knowledge practice theory
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Hermann Hesse
knowledge math logic
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. Henri Poincare
knowledge men differences
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. Henry Ford
knowledge people desire
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Hilary Mantel
knowledge people understanding
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. Heraclitus
knowledge newspapers miscellaneous
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. Henry Ward Beecher
knowledge body hungry
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
knowledge race progress
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
knowledge age poison
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
knowledge intelligent people
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
knowledge men thinking
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
knowledge ideas growth
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
knowledge voice nations
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
knowledge men doe
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
knowledge science stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge knows
The more I know the less tortured I am. Alanis Morissette
knowledge degenerates probability
All knowledge degenerates into probability. David Hume
knowledge lost wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. T. S. Eliot
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Carlos Castaneda
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
knowledge past men
The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned. Henry Gantt If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
knowledge men gold
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
knowledge larger longer
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.