Knowledge Quotes - Page 27

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

  Greg Proops

  Horizontal

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• Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

  Edward Albee

  Distance, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.63, The Overlook Press

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  John Locke

  Character, Science, Men

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Giving

  "The Value of Literature to Men of Business". Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, October 23, 1844.

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• Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Change, Needs, Hours

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Mean, Promise

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• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Life, Freedom, Philosophy

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.

  Mark Peters

  Done, Uniforms, Cloaks

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• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wisdom, Horse

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 19

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Organized Life, Too Much Information, Lost

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

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Latin, Knowledge And Power

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Men

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Mind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 22, 2013

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Wall, Science, Giving

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Science, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.142

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• But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

  Arthur Balfour

  Change, Religious, Science

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• But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Errors

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.81

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• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Science, Curiosity

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• By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Two, Remembrance

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.12

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• Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Men, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.27

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