Famous Quotes - Tags - Knowledge

  • ... men know best about everything, except what women know better. More
  • ... to know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody... More
  • ... writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing... More
  • A boy’s mind is not so easily sullied as a girl’s.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal... More
  • A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the... More
  • A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the... More
  • A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. More
  • A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. More
  • A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of... More
  • A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood... More
  • A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful,Mwhile his knowledge, so called,... More
  • A moody child and wildly wise
    Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
    Which chose, like... More
  • A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world. More
  • A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for... More
  • A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state... More
  • A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes,... More
  • After, when they disentwine
    You from me and yours from mine,
    Neither can be certain... More
  • All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. More
  • All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. More
  • All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten... More
  • All knowledge is ambiguous. More
  • All men by nature desire knowledge. More
  • All men by nature desire to know. More
  • All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. More
  • All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You first have an instinct, then an... More
  • All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. More
  • All things are known to the soul. More
  • Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: Since you cannot be judges be... More
  • Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. More
  • And all your future lies beneath your hat. More
  • And oh, I knew, I knew,
    And said out loud, I couldn’t bide the smother
    And heat so... More
  • And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
    A heaviness in the trees, and... More
  • And though that other question that I asked and can’t
    Remember any more is going to move... More
  • And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and... More
  • And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. More
  • And yet spend all our life on imprecisions,
    That when we start to die
    Have no idea why. More
  • And, in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study... More
  • Any gain
    Was made by getting science on the brain;
    There was so much more every day to... More
  • As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so... More
  • As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality... More
  • At first, people stood along the schoolchildren’s path and asked them anxiously, “Tell me, my... More
  • At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things... More
  • Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations
    And dissolve into our judgement all... More
  • Away profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause? This refers to that, and that to the... More
  • Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a
    man should speak truly, little... More
  • Berowne. What is the end of study, let me know?
    King. Why, that to know which else we should... More
  • Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune. More
  • Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. More
  • Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. More
  • But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only... More
  • But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from... More
  • But I know, too,
    That the blackbird is involved
    In what I know. More
  • But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries—the most obvious things, which come in... More
  • But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that... More
  • But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of... More
  • But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and... More
  • But the known?
    This, I have had to be given,
    a life, love, and from one man
    the world. More
  • But things get darker as we move
    To ask them: Whom must we get to know
    To die, so you... More
  • But whether or not a man was asked
    To mar the love of two
    By harboring woe in the bridal... More
  • But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only... More
  • By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that... More
  • By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds... More
  • Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?... More
  • Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know... More
  • Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and,... More
  • Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind. Can another man perceive... More
  • Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid,... More
  • Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at... More
  • Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that... More
  • Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers... More
  • Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every... More
  • Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. More
  • Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the... More
  • Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude!... More
  • Enough to know no knowing. More
  • Even the bravest among us rarely possesses the courage for what he really knows. More
  • Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder—but not the ladder. More
  • Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was... More
  • Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep... More
  • Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been... More
  • Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to... More
  • Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion. More
  • Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,—and has wit in it, and instruction... More
  • Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn’t take any... More
  • Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
    In thy most need to go by thy side. More
  • Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is... More
  • Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself... More
  • Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from... More
  • Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.... More
  • Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have the uncultured souls. More
  • For also knowledge itself is power. More
  • For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. More
  • For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize....... More
  • For lust of knowing what should not be known,
    We take the Golden Road to Samarkand. More
  • For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does and what he knows is only what... More
  • For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
    Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;
    And out... More
  • For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a... More
  • For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing... More
  • From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only... More
  • Gain time to lose. More

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