Knowledge Quotes - Page 35

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.

We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.