Knowledge Quotes
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.
Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.