Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

~ The ecologization of politics requires us to acknowledge the priority of human values and makes ecology part of education at an early age, molding a new, modern approach to nature and, at the same time, giving back to man a sense of being part of nature. No moral improvement of society is possible without that ~

Mikhail Gorbachev

~ I know I do not have his looks. I know I do not have his money. I know I do not have his connections, his knowledge of fine wines. I know sometimes when I eat I get this clicking sound in my jaw... ~

Wayne Campbell

~ Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ~

Thomas Henry Huxley

~ I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ~

Thomas Huxley

~ A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ~

Lafcadio Hearn

~ Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ~

Albert J. Nock

~ Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. ~

Arthur Conan Doyle

~ In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ~

Humphry Davy

~ Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ 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 ~

Charles Lindbergh

~ You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ~

Harry Browne

~ You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ~

Harry Browne

~ It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences. ~

Ernest Nagel

~ It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. ~

Carl Friedrich Gauss

~ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ~

DeWitt Clinton

~ If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us. ~

Francis Schaeffer

~ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ~

Daniel J. Boorstin

~ The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ~

Willard Libby

~ Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ~

Thomas Henry Huxley

~ The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. ~

Wilhelm Dilthey

~ We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. ~

Clifford Geertz

~ 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. ~

Franz Boas

~ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. ~

Wilde, Oscar

~ A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ~

Lafcadio Hearn

~ The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. ~

N. W. Dougherty

~ It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ~

Joseph Wood Krutch

~ Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ~

Saint Thomas Aquinas

~ Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ~

Samuel Horsley

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