Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 27
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 27 provides more knowledge quotes.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.Collection: Knowledge
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.Collection: Knowledge
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.Collection: Knowledge
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.Collection: Knowledge
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.Collection: Knowledge
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.Collection: Knowledge
One cannot know everything.Collection: Knowledge
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?Collection: Knowledge
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.Collection: Knowledge
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.Collection: Knowledge
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.Collection: Knowledge
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.Collection: Knowledge
The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.Collection: Knowledge
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.Collection: Knowledge
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.Collection: Knowledge
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.Collection: Knowledge
To know all things is not permitted.Collection: Knowledge
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.Collection: Knowledge
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.Collection: Knowledge
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.Collection: Knowledge
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.Collection: Knowledge
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.Collection: Knowledge
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.Collection: Knowledge
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.Collection: Knowledge
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.Collection: Knowledge
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.Collection: Knowledge
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.Collection: Knowledge
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.Collection: Knowledge
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.Collection: Knowledge
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.Collection: Knowledge
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.Collection: Knowledge
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.Collection: Knowledge
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.Collection: Knowledge
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.Collection: Knowledge
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.Collection: Knowledge
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.Collection: Knowledge
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.Collection: Knowledge
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.Collection: Knowledge
Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.Collection: Knowledge
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.Collection: Knowledge
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.Collection: Knowledge
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.Collection: Knowledge
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.Collection: Knowledge