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.

Image of Carl Sagan
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.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Katherine Anne Porter
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.
- Katherine Anne Porter
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Image of Philip Sidney
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
- Philip Sidney
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Amy Poehler
I know enough now to know I know nothing.
- Amy Poehler
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of Laozi
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
- Laozi
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Image of Laozi
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
- Laozi
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Scott Adams
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.
- Scott Adams
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Image of Will Rogers
We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
- Will Rogers
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Laozi
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
- Laozi
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of George Wald
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.
- George Wald
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Image of Alanis Morissette
The more I know the less tortured I am.
- Alanis Morissette
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Image of George Santayana
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
- George Santayana
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Image of John Ruskin
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.
- John Ruskin
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
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.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Carl Sagan
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.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Alice Walker
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
- Alice Walker
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Image of Laozi
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
- Laozi
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Image of Benjamin Whichcote
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
- Benjamin Whichcote
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Bertrand Russell
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Francois Rabelais
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- Francois Rabelais
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Image of Erwin Schrodinger
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?"
- Erwin Schrodinger
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Image of Horace
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
- Horace
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Image of Miguel de Unamuno
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.
- Miguel de Unamuno
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Image of Ayn Rand
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.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Sandra Bernhard
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
- Sandra Bernhard
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Image of Blaise Pascal
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.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Carl Sagan
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.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Nikola Tesla
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.
- Nikola Tesla
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Bertrand Russell
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.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Stuart Wilde
Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.
- Stuart Wilde
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Niels Bohr
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.
- Niels Bohr
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