Knowledge Quotes - Page 11

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

  Bernard Beckett

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.

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• There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Substitutes

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Winter, Thinking, Squirrels

  "By the Waters of Babylon". Post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as "The Place of the Gods"), July 31, 1937.

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• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Order, Confusion

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.242

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

  Michael N. Nagler

  God, Mean, Self

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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Pico Iyer

  Falling In Love, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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• I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Desire, Principles

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

  David Bohm

  Learning, Thinking, Important

  New Scientist (p. 42), February 1993.

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• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Intelligence

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• Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

  Christopher Alexander

  Lying, Men, Secret

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.52, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Fighting, Class, People

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• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Doe, Demand

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Science, Mysterious Universe

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

  "Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces" by Carolyn Snyder, 2003.

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

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• It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Important, Use

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• Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Feelings, Mind, Know Yourself

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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• All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Metaphysics

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.103

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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