Best 5587 quotes in «knowledge quotes» category

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

Knowledge is the currency of the universe.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

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.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.