Knowledge Quotes - page 4

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. (George Boole)
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. View quote
George Boole
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, As fire is of light. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Research is creating new knowledge. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. View quote
Bruce Lee
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. View quote
Alexander Pope
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. View quote
Saadi
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. View quote
Max Heindel
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Alfred North Whitehead)
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Activity is the only road to knowledge. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production... View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security. (Samuel Adams)
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
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