Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 31

Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 31 provides more knowledge quotes.

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Knowledge is limited.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Richard P. Feynman
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.
- Richard P. Feynman
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Image of T. S. Eliot
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All things are known to the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Albert Einstein
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Neil Gaiman
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
We live by information, not by sight.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Sigmund Freud
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Aristotle
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
- Aristotle
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Stephen Fry
How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Galileo Galilei
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.
- Galileo Galilei
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Matthew Arnold
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
- Matthew Arnold
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Image of Khalil Gibran
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding
- E. M. Forster
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Image of Hannah Arendt
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
- Hannah Arendt
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Michel Foucault
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
- Michel Foucault
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The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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