Knowledge Quotes - Page 39

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

True words seem false.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice of physics. By measurement to knowledge [door meten tot weten] I should like to write as a motto above the entrance to every physics laboratory.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.