Knowledge Quotes - Page 37

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I do not believe...I know.