Knowledge Quotes - Page 5

It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world without an understanding of what to do with their time.

Sunday Adelaja

We awaken by asking the right questions.

Suzy Kassem

It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.

Faith Erin Hicks

The only thing that is limiting me and you from attaining anything in life is what we know or what we don’t know.

Sunday Adelaja

Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Ernest Hemingway

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking" (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, "with me" or "against me," and most of the time you'll be wrong.

Richard Rohr

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.

Marianne Moore

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

Leigh Brackett

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Dejan Stojanovic

Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity that is their strength...It does not entail the transmission of something from those who have to those who do not, but rather the setting in motion of a chain of unforeseen accesses.

Florian Schneider

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Gloria Steinem

...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....

The New York Times

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.)

Alan Sokal

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Elon Musk

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

Christine de Pizan

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

Martin Schuster

Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.-Kutsnetz in TALUS

Erol Ozan

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

LouAnne Johnson

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.]

John Adams

Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient.

Jaree Francis

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

Albert Einstein

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Maya Angelou

Jace?""Yeah?""How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?"The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a birdcage, all black metal and decorative bits of gilt. "I guessed," he said, latching the door behind them. "It seemed like the most likely explanation.""You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."He pressed a button in the wall, and the elevator lurched into action with a vibrating groan that she felt all through the bones in her feet. "I was ninety percent sure.""I see," Clary said.There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put a hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?"The other ten percent," she said, and they rode the rest of the way down to the street in silence.

Cassandra Clare

No knowledge about self is self-slavery!

Israelmore Ayivor

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Amit Kalantri

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Amit Kalantri

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Amit Kalantri

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

Amit Kalantri

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Amit Kalantri

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Amit Kalantri

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Amit Kalantri

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Amit Kalantri

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Amit Kalantri

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

Amit Kalantri

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Amit Kalantri

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Amit Kalantri

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Amit Kalantri

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Amit Kalantri

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Amit Kalantri

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

Amit Kalantri

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Amit Kalantri

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Amit Kalantri

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Amit Kalantri

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

Amit Kalantri

All worries are less with wine.

Amit Kalantri

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Amit Kalantri

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

Amit Kalantri

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

Amit Kalantri

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Amit Kalantri

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Amit Kalantri

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Amit Kalantri

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

Amit Kalantri

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Amit Kalantri

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

Amit Kalantri

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Amit Kalantri

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

Amit Kalantri

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