Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 23
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 23 provides more knowledge quotes.
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.Collection: Knowledge
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.Collection: Knowledge
What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.Collection: Knowledge
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.Collection: Knowledge
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!Collection: Knowledge
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.Collection: Knowledge
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.Collection: Knowledge
All knowledge degenerates into probability.Collection: Knowledge
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.Collection: Knowledge
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!Collection: Knowledge
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.Collection: Knowledge
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.Collection: Knowledge
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.Collection: Knowledge
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.Collection: Knowledge
I will read anything rather than work.Collection: Knowledge
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.Collection: Knowledge
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.Collection: Knowledge
many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.Collection: Knowledge
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.Collection: Knowledge
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.Collection: Knowledge
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.Collection: Knowledge
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.Collection: Knowledge
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.Collection: Knowledge
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.Collection: Knowledge
The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.Collection: Knowledge
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.Collection: Knowledge
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.Collection: Knowledge
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.Collection: Knowledge
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.Collection: Knowledge
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.Collection: Knowledge
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.Collection: Knowledge
The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.Collection: Knowledge
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.Collection: Knowledge
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.Collection: Knowledge
One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.Collection: Knowledge
That so few understand me is why I am treasured.Collection: Knowledge
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.Collection: Knowledge
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.Collection: Knowledge
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.Collection: Knowledge
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.Collection: Knowledge
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.Collection: Knowledge
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.Collection: Knowledge
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Collection: Knowledge
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.Collection: Knowledge
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.Collection: Knowledge