Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 21
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As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.Collection: Knowledge
Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.Collection: Knowledge
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.Collection: Knowledge
The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.Collection: Knowledge
First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.Collection: Knowledge
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.Collection: Knowledge
A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.Collection: Knowledge
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.Collection: Knowledge
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.Collection: Knowledge
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.Collection: Knowledge
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.Collection: Knowledge
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.Collection: Knowledge
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.Collection: Knowledge
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.Collection: Knowledge
Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is a process, not a product.Collection: Knowledge
Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.Collection: Knowledge
What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.Collection: Knowledge
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.Collection: Knowledge
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.Collection: Knowledge
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.Collection: Knowledge
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.Collection: Knowledge
While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.Collection: Knowledge
To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.Collection: Knowledge
The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.Collection: Knowledge
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.Collection: Knowledge
Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?Collection: Knowledge
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations and experiments of their objectivity, makes them biased, and, moreover, creates false problems.Collection: Knowledge
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.Collection: Knowledge
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.Collection: Knowledge
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.Collection: Knowledge
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.Collection: Knowledge
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge has a beginning but no end.Collection: Knowledge
To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.Collection: Knowledge
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.Collection: Knowledge
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.Collection: Knowledge
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.Collection: Knowledge
There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.Collection: Knowledge
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.Collection: Knowledge
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.Collection: Knowledge
Happiness exist when you don't know a thingCollection: Knowledge