Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 30
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 30 provides more knowledge quotes.
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.Collection: Knowledge
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'Collection: Knowledge
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is constructed, not transferredCollection: Knowledge
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.Collection: Knowledge
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.Collection: Knowledge
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.Collection: Knowledge
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.Collection: Knowledge
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.Collection: Knowledge
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.Collection: Knowledge
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook.Collection: Knowledge
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.Collection: Knowledge
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.Collection: Knowledge
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.Collection: Knowledge
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.Collection: Knowledge
He knows the universe and does not know himself.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.Collection: Knowledge
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.Collection: Knowledge
Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.Collection: Knowledge
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.Collection: Knowledge
To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.Collection: Knowledge
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?Collection: Knowledge
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.Collection: Knowledge
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.Collection: Knowledge
You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.Collection: Knowledge
If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.Collection: Knowledge
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.Collection: Knowledge
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.Collection: Knowledge
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.Collection: Knowledge
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.Collection: Knowledge
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.Collection: Knowledge
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.Collection: Knowledge
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.Collection: Knowledge
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Collection: Knowledge
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.Collection: Knowledge
Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.Collection: Knowledge
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.Collection: Knowledge
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?Collection: Knowledge
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]Collection: Knowledge
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.Collection: Knowledge
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.Collection: Knowledge
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.Collection: Knowledge
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.Collection: Knowledge