Knowledge Quotes - Page 65

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

You're not the only one falling

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.