Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 32
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 32 provides more knowledge quotes.
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.Collection: Knowledge
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.Collection: Knowledge
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.Collection: Knowledge
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.Collection: Knowledge
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.Collection: Knowledge
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.Collection: Knowledge
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.Collection: Knowledge
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.Collection: Knowledge
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.Collection: Knowledge
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!Collection: Knowledge
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.Collection: Knowledge
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.Collection: Knowledge
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.Collection: Knowledge
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.Collection: Knowledge
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.Collection: Knowledge
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.Collection: Knowledge
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?Collection: Knowledge
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.Collection: Knowledge
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.Collection: Knowledge
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.Collection: Knowledge
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.Collection: Knowledge
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.Collection: Knowledge
There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.Collection: Knowledge
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.Collection: Knowledge
The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.Collection: Knowledge
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.Collection: Knowledge
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.Collection: Knowledge
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.Collection: Knowledge
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.Collection: Knowledge
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.Collection: Knowledge
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.Collection: Knowledge
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.Collection: Knowledge
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.Collection: Knowledge
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.Collection: Knowledge
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.Collection: Knowledge
How little we know of what there is to know.Collection: Knowledge
We won't know for a few years.Collection: Knowledge
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.Collection: Knowledge
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.Collection: Knowledge
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is only potential power.Collection: Knowledge