Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 17
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 17 provides more knowledge quotes.
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.Collection: Knowledge
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.Collection: Knowledge
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.Collection: Knowledge
Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.Collection: Knowledge
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.Collection: Knowledge
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.Collection: Knowledge
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.Collection: Knowledge
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.Collection: Knowledge
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.Collection: Knowledge
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.Collection: Knowledge
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.Collection: Knowledge
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.Collection: Knowledge
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.Collection: Knowledge
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.Collection: Knowledge
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.Collection: Knowledge
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.Collection: Knowledge
A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.Collection: Knowledge
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.Collection: Knowledge
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.Collection: Knowledge
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.Collection: Knowledge
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.Collection: Knowledge
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.Collection: Knowledge
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.Collection: Knowledge
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.Collection: Knowledge
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.Collection: Knowledge
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.Collection: Knowledge
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.Collection: Knowledge
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.Collection: Knowledge
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.Collection: Knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.Collection: Knowledge
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.Collection: Knowledge
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.Collection: Knowledge
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.Collection: Knowledge
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.Collection: Knowledge
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."Collection: Knowledge
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.Collection: Knowledge
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.Collection: Knowledge
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.Collection: Knowledge
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.Collection: Knowledge
Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.Collection: Knowledge
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.Collection: Knowledge
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.Collection: Knowledge