Knowledge Quotes
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.
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If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!
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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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Knowledge often spoils devotion.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
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The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
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Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.
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A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.
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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
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Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.
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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
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I use the word ‘guru' for him in the mythological sense - all other educationists ask for payment for knowledge imparted; this gentleman paid me and taught me. What a journey it has been, after I met him at the age of 17-and-a-half.
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Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'?He shut that one down sharply.Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.
