Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 34
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There is nothing higher than reason.Collection: Knowledge
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.Collection: Knowledge
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.Collection: Knowledge
Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.Collection: Knowledge
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.Collection: Knowledge
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.Collection: Knowledge
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.Collection: Knowledge
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.Collection: Knowledge
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.Collection: Knowledge
Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.Collection: Knowledge
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.Collection: Knowledge
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.Collection: Knowledge
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.Collection: Knowledge
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.Collection: Knowledge
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.Collection: Knowledge
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.Collection: Knowledge
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.Collection: Knowledge
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?Collection: Knowledge
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.Collection: Knowledge
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.Collection: Knowledge
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.Collection: Knowledge
Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Knowledge
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.Collection: Knowledge
Not if I know myself at all.Collection: Knowledge
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.Collection: Knowledge
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.Collection: Knowledge
The goal is to know how not-to-know.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.Collection: Knowledge
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.Collection: Knowledge
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge was meant to be shared.Collection: Knowledge
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.Collection: Knowledge
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.Collection: Knowledge
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.Collection: Knowledge
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.Collection: Knowledge
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.Collection: Knowledge
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.Collection: Knowledge
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.Collection: Knowledge
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Collection: Knowledge
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.Collection: Knowledge