Knowledge Quotes - Page 40

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.