Knowledge Quotes - Page 16

• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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• Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Patience, Fighting, The End Of The Day

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011

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• There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

  Brigham Young

  Wisdom, Light, Source

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• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Business, Men

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• What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Experience, Essentials

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.

  Virginia Henderson

  Love, Confidence, Mother

  "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Rainbow, Feelings

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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  Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Divine Comedy, Virtue

  'Divina Commedia' 'Inferno' canto 26, l. 118

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

  Haruki Murakami

  Confusion, World, Twins

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2013

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• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Light, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is not happiness, and science
  But an exchange of ignorance for that
  Which is another kind of ignorance.

  Lord Byron

  Ignorance, Science, Ignorant

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved.

  Kathy Ireland

  Mom, Busy, Reaching

  "CNN Saturday" with Catherine Callaway, July 20, 2002.

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• Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Science, Technology, Ethical Issues

  "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.

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• Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Charming, Attractive

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Too Much Information

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Men

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

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• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Ignorance, White

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Death, Mean, Science

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• What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.

  Alexandre Koyre

  Science, Common Sense, Reform

  "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.

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• Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Next, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132

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