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.

Image of Carl Linnaeus
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.
- Carl Linnaeus
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Frank Zappa
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
- Frank Zappa
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Image of Robert James Waller
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.
- Robert James Waller
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Image of Iyanla Vanzant
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.
- Iyanla Vanzant
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rudolf Steiner
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.
- Rudolf Steiner
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Image of James Mackintosh
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
- James Mackintosh
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Plotinus
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
- Plotinus
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Thomas de Quincey
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
- Thomas de Quincey
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Image of Agnes Repplier
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.
- Agnes Repplier
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Edwin Muir
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
- Edwin Muir
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Terence
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
- Terence
Collection: Knowledge
Image of William Whewell
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.
- William Whewell
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Robert Penn Warren
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.
- Robert Penn Warren
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Satchel Paige
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
- Satchel Paige
Collection: Knowledge
Image of F. H. Bradley
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
- F. H. Bradley
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Image of Clay Shirky
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
- Clay Shirky
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Image of Charles Francis Richter
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.
- Charles Francis Richter
Collection: Knowledge
Image of François-René de Chateaubriand
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.
- François-René de Chateaubriand
Collection: Knowledge
Image of C.P. Snow
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.
- C.P. Snow
Collection: Knowledge
Image of C.P. Snow
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.
- C.P. Snow
Collection: Knowledge
Image of C.P. Snow
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.
- C.P. Snow
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Theodor Adorno
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
- Theodor Adorno
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Image of Nicholas Murray Butler
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.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
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Image of John Searle
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.
- John Searle
Collection: Knowledge
Image of George Wald
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
- George Wald
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Image of Leo Szilard
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.
- Leo Szilard
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Bernard DeVoto
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
- Bernard DeVoto
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Image of James Thurber
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
- James Thurber
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Oliver North
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
- Oliver North
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Image of John Dos Passos
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.
- John Dos Passos
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ralph Washington Sockman
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.
- Ralph Washington Sockman
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Image of Robert Southey
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.
- Robert Southey
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Image of Bernard Beckett
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
- Bernard Beckett
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Image of Laurence Olivier
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.
- Laurence Olivier
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Henri Poincare
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
- Henri Poincare
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Image of Orlando Aloysius Battista
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Image of C. Wright Mills
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.
- C. Wright Mills
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Elihu Burritt
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.
- Elihu Burritt
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Alfred Russel Wallace
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.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Norman Doidge
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.
- Norman Doidge
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Daniel J. Boorstin
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Image of Hubertus Strughold
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."
- Hubertus Strughold
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Dan Brown
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
- Dan Brown
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Philip Kitcher
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.
- Philip Kitcher
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rembrandt
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.
- Rembrandt
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Janet Morris
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
- Janet Morris
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Morris Kline
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
- Morris Kline
Collection: Knowledge