Knowledge Quotes - Page 51

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.