What Is Knowledge Quotes
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.
With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.
if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.