Knowledge Quotes - Page 18

• A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Facts, Paranoid

  Quoted in Toronto Star, 22 Apr. 1989

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• I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Writing, Men, Littles

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

  Robert Henri

  Tools, Brushes, Anatomy

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• Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Knows

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Past, Years, Brain

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• We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

  Asger Jorn

  Needs, Generations, Can Do

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

  Max Planck

  Science, Mind, World

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

  Max Planck

  Science, Space, Trying

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Book, Communication

  "The Will Rogers Book".

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• Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth Is, Crippled, Seeing

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• The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Tiny, Clue

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Views, Simplicity, Research

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• The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

  Norman Mailer

  Heart, Journey, Depth

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.17, Random House

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• Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

  Benedetto Croce

  Knowing, Leaving, Judgement

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

  Christine Downing

  Water, Reeds, Grass

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• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Champion, Zeal

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.178

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• Alchemists turned into chemists
  when they stopped keeping secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Keeping Secrets, Alchemist, Management

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ocean, Learning, Ignorance

  "Scientific American", Vol. 267, 1992.

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• The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Spiritual, War, Caring

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• I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge
  to reduce hunger and poverty.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Stressed

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• We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teamwork, Children, Heart

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• If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doubt, Greater

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.24

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