Quotes about knowledge
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
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.
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 discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
knowledge knows
The more I know the less tortured I am. Alanis Morissette
knowledge talking attention
You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about. David McCullough
knowledge missing facts
The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
knowledge science wish
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. Carl Sagan
knowledge science stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
knowledge past political
You have to know the past to understand the present.
knowledge science thinking
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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 names giving
Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. William Shakespeare
knowledge tombs knows
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen. David Hilbert
knowledge science knows
We must know. We will know.
knowledge numbers perfect
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion. David Hume
knowledge needs causes
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.
knowledge understanding firsts
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.
knowledge degenerates probability
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
knowledge emotional feelings
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Audre Lorde
knowledge learning soul
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
knowledge ends knows
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
knowledge body generations
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. Edwin Powell Hubble
knowledge skins toes
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know. Edwin Muir
knowledge men thinking
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
knowledge cutting age
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge. Edward Lear
knowledge men want
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. Bertrand Russell
knowledge too-late live-and-learn
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live. Carolyn Wells