Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 26
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 26 provides more knowledge quotes.
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.Collection: Knowledge
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.Collection: Knowledge
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.Collection: Knowledge
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.Collection: Knowledge
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.Collection: Knowledge
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.Collection: Knowledge
I know enough now to know I know nothing.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.Collection: Knowledge
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.Collection: Knowledge
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.Collection: Knowledge
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.Collection: Knowledge
One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.Collection: Knowledge
We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.Collection: Knowledge
Better know nothing than half-know many things.Collection: Knowledge
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.Collection: Knowledge
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.Collection: Knowledge
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.Collection: Knowledge
The more I know the less tortured I am.Collection: Knowledge
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.Collection: Knowledge
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.Collection: Knowledge
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.Collection: Knowledge
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.Collection: Knowledge
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.Collection: Knowledge
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.Collection: Knowledge
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.Collection: Knowledge
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.Collection: Knowledge
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.Collection: Knowledge
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Collection: Knowledge
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.Collection: Knowledge
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.Collection: Knowledge
It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"Collection: Knowledge
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.Collection: Knowledge
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.Collection: Knowledge
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.Collection: Knowledge
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.Collection: Knowledge
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.Collection: Knowledge
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.Collection: Knowledge
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.Collection: Knowledge
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.Collection: Knowledge
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.Collection: Knowledge
Whatever we know without inference is mental.Collection: Knowledge
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.Collection: Knowledge
Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.Collection: Knowledge
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.Collection: Knowledge
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.Collection: Knowledge
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mashbut to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.Collection: Knowledge