Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 24
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To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.Collection: Knowledge
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.Collection: Knowledge
Too much to know is to know naught but fame.Collection: Knowledge
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.Collection: Knowledge
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.Collection: Knowledge
It is well for one to know more than he says.Collection: Knowledge
Know what you are talking about.Collection: Knowledge
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.Collection: Knowledge
Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.Collection: Knowledge
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.Collection: Knowledge
I know all that better than my own name.Collection: Knowledge
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.Collection: Knowledge
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
We think by feeling. What is there to know?Collection: Knowledge
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?Collection: Knowledge
Enough to know no knowing.Collection: Knowledge
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.Collection: Knowledge
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledgeCollection: Knowledge
We bless and curse ourselves.Collection: Knowledge
Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.Collection: Knowledge
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!Collection: Knowledge
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but rather as a system of hypotheses; that is to say, as a system of guesses or anticipations which in principle cannot be justified, but with which we work as long as they stand up to tests, and of which we are never justified in saying that we know they are 'true' or 'more or less certain' or even 'probable.'Collection: Knowledge
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.Collection: Knowledge
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.Collection: Knowledge
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.Collection: Knowledge
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.Collection: Knowledge
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.Collection: Knowledge
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.Collection: Knowledge
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.Collection: Knowledge
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.Collection: Knowledge
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.Collection: Knowledge
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.Collection: Knowledge
From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.Collection: Knowledge
All difficulties are easy when they are known.Collection: Knowledge
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.Collection: Knowledge
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.Collection: Knowledge
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.Collection: Knowledge
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.Collection: Knowledge
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.Collection: Knowledge
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.Collection: Knowledge
By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.Collection: Knowledge
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.Collection: Knowledge
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.Collection: Knowledge
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.Collection: Knowledge
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.Collection: Knowledge
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.Collection: Knowledge