Knowledge Quotes - Page 27

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.