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Knowledge Quotes
"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."
185
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
154
"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."
146
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
145
"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."
141
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
135
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
132
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
132
"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."
128
"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."
126
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
125
"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."
120
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
118
"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."
95
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
94
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
88
"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."
81
"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."
79
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
78
"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
75
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
73
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
69
"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."
67
"Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries."
65
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
64
"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."
62
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
62
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."
61
"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."
60
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
60
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
60
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
60
"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."
60
"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
59
"What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites."
59
"Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher."
58
"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."
58
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
56
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
56
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