Knowledge Quotes - Page 48

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

Become as knowledgeable as possible.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.