Knowledge Quotes - Page 22

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying . . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.