What Is Knowledge Quotes
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.
