Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixYou are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag HammarskjoldTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolas CopernicusWe must acknowledge there are good imams and bad imams.
David DavisThere is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenFor love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyleyou want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao ZedongThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesIn expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry MillerThe apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur MillerThere is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing
Laurens Van Der PostIt has also contained come of the very best, most accessible writing for children, by writers who seldom get the acknowledgement they deserve [on Fantasy genre]
Terry PratchettSelf-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheKnowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob BronowskiPoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonThere taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Thomas TickellPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Sir Arthur EddingtonMadam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard SheridanKnowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil GibranWe acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
Camilla Parker BowlesThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungKnowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney HarrisOur belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
Karl PopperIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John AdamsI do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
George MacDonaldLater, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang PauliA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnIt is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
Benjamin RushForeknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond AronKnowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh BillingsKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyThe knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving HoweThe past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen AmbroseAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Imannuel KantEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Auguste ComteKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin TofflerKnowledge is going to make you stronger.
Avery BrooksGood nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert SpencerImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinGetting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleyEvery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
Pick another category
|
|
|
| |
|
