What Is Knowledge Quotes

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

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.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

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.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.