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Knowledge Quotes
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
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"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
53
"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."
52
"True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement."
49
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
47
"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system."
47
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
45
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
42
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
41
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
41
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
39
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
38
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
38
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
37
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
36
"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."
35
"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
34
"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality."
30
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
29
"Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries."
25
"You have to know the past to understand the present."
25
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
25
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
24
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
21
"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."
21
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
20
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
20
"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
19
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
18
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
18
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
18
"The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors."
17
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
17
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
17
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
17
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
17
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
16
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
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