Knowledge Quotes - Page 75

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Human beings fear light and knowledge and power. There is a weird quirky sort of thing that happens with people. When you log on to the truth and you start to become it, it threatens them because they live with countless falsehoods.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.