Knowledge Quotes
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.
A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.
One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.
Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.
There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.
Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.
I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse
Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.
The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end.
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
