Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 29
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 29 provides more knowledge quotes.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.Collection: Knowledge
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.Collection: Knowledge
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.Collection: Knowledge
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.Collection: Knowledge
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.Collection: Knowledge
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.Collection: Knowledge
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.Collection: Knowledge
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.Collection: Knowledge
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.Collection: Knowledge
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.Collection: Knowledge
Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.Collection: Knowledge
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.Collection: Knowledge
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.Collection: Knowledge
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.Collection: Knowledge
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.Collection: Knowledge
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."Collection: Knowledge
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.Collection: Knowledge
I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.Collection: Knowledge
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.Collection: Knowledge
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.Collection: Knowledge
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.Collection: Knowledge
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.Collection: Knowledge
I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.Collection: Knowledge
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.Collection: Knowledge
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.Collection: Knowledge
There is no substitute for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.Collection: Knowledge
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.Collection: Knowledge
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is our ultimate good.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.Collection: Knowledge
I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.Collection: Knowledge
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!Collection: Knowledge
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.Collection: Knowledge
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.Collection: Knowledge
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Collection: Knowledge
Know what you do not know.Collection: Knowledge
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.Collection: Knowledge
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.Collection: Knowledge
I know what I do not know.Collection: Knowledge
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.Collection: Knowledge
The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.Collection: Knowledge