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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

No one can take it away from you.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.