Knowledge Quotes - Page 17

• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Tree, Library, Rivals

  1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Badass, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Wish, Cosmos

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.

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• God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Country, Men

  Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.

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• Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
  Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
  In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
  Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mind, Connections

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 6 'The Winter Walk at Noon' l. 89

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• Knowledge is only potential power.

  Napoleon Hill

  Power

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.57, Penguin

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• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Education

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ignorance, Atheism

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Learning

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• Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Joseph Hall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Science

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

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• Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.

  Richard Kirwan

  Science, Rome, History

  Richard Kirwan (1799). “Geological essays”, p.5

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Speak English, Internet Users, Incapable

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughing, Mechanic, Masters

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• Whatever we know without inference is mental.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inference, Knows

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.240, Routledge

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• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Done, Know How, Knows

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• I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Gutenberg, Inventor

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• We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Littles, Accounts

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• One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

  John M. Tyler

  Reading, Science, Men

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• There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Research, Limits

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Men, Knowing Better

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• People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Knowing, People

  Herman Melville (1850). “Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.89

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