A Quotes
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“All knowledge is but remembrance.”
“All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.”
“All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.”
Source: Collected essays
“All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.”
“All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.”
Source: Five Ways to Forgiveness
“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.”
Source: Ideology and Utopia
“All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.”
Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
“ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.”
“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”
“All knowledge is self-reflective.”
“All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.”
“All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.”
“All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.”
“All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.”
“All knowledge is worth having”
Source: Kushiel's Avatar
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
“All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?”
Source: Healology
“All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.”
Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“All knowledge should be doubted and questioned first and foremost.”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
Source: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
“All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.”
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.”
“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!”
Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2
“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.”
Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2
“All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.”
“All known existence points beyond itself.”
“All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.”
“All labels are a step down from human.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“All labels are offensive in some way.”
“All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“All labor has dignity.”
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
Source: Strength to Love
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
worth and should be pursued with respect for excellence.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“All labour is directed towards producing some effect.”
Source: Principles of Economics
“All labours draw hame at even,
And can to others say,
"Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,
Whilk sent this summer day."”
“All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.”
Source: Aspects of American photography, 1976: April 1-April 30, 1976, Gallery 210
“All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.”
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.”
“All language is a longing for home.”
“All language is a popularity contest.”
“All language is an aspiration to music.”
Source: Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
“All language is but a poor translation.”
“All language is political.”
“All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.”
Source: Letters