1,425 Knowledge Quotes

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

I always like to know what I'm doing, but there are times when nobody will tell me.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

You know more than you think you do.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and - yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

So much one man can do, That does both act and know.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 'Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?'

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.

Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

The lips of the righteous teach many, But fools die for want of wisdom.