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Knowledge Quotes
"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes."
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"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
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"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
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"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
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"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
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"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."
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"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
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"Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia."
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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"To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings."
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"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
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"Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all."
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."
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"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children."
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"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
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"The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need."
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
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"More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution."
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"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system."
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"I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out."
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"Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves."
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"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
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"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
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"The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge."
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