Knowledge Quotes - Page 46

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.