Knowledge Quotes - Page 13

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.