Best Knowledge Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.”

Knows Moving Science Knowledge Ocean Accounts Prejudice Shore Advancing

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“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.”

Men Mind Ideas Reason Character Science White Answers Knowledge Materials Paper Experience Busy Stores Endless Variety Fancy Void One Word Boundless White Paper

Author:John Locke

“Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.”

Ifs Mean School Science Enemy Knowledge Ignorance Ignorant Divinity Science And Religion Antagonist

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.”

Thinking Knows Want Two Care Science Class Knowledge Knowing Scientist

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.”

Knowledge Islam Obligation

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.”

Ifs Men World Way Long Helping Next Easy Knowledge Path This World Brother Anxiety Faults Islam Believer Gods Will Pursue Paradise Remove Resurrection Smooth God Help Destitute

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”

“Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.”

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages”

Mind Stills Book Age Action Christian Opinion Knowledge Succeed Infinite Casts Seeds Christian Inspirational Wit Provoking

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

Inspirational Inspiring Business Wonder Knowledge Doubt Roots

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Wonder Knowledge Teach Words Of Wisdom Intelligence Communicate Knowledge Wisdom Siddhartha Knowledge And Wisdom Steppenwolf Fortification

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.”

Believe I Believe Knowledge My Friends Essence I Believe In Siddhartha Atman

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Logic is the anatomy of thought.”

Education Knowledge Logic Mathematics Math Anatomy

Author:John Locke

“Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.”

Made Use Knowledge Constructive Knowledge Is Power

Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

Ifs Should Wells Literature Women Inspiring Knowledge Knowing Misfortunes Jane

Author:Jane Austen

“Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”

Men Life Mind Faces Knowledge Source Face To Face Converses

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Time Knowledge Another Time

Author:Francis Bacon

“Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.”

Firsts Philosophy Wonder Principles Knowledge Study Mankind Expectations Discovery Advantage Connections Lays Various Appearance Concealed Prompts

Author:Adam Smith

“There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.”

Knowledge Concurrence

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.”

Knows Art Knowledge Learning

Book:The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq

Source: The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq

“I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.”

Thinking Humans Reason Pain Knowledge Pursuit Evolve Being Human Pursuit Of Knowledge Alleviate Human Knowledge

Author:Sting

“Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.”

May Seems Causes Steps Knowledge Strange Wall Sight Blessed Blind Guides Mortals Sufficient Faculty Admiration Surprising Predictions Familiarity Admirable Precipice

Author:David Berman

“For knowledge, too, is itself power.”

Knowledge

Author:Francis Bacon

“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”

Men Knowledge Rich Glory Creator Relief Estates

Author:Francis Bacon

“Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.”

Science Chance Known Knowledge Nice Accounts Method Dues Experiments Invention Setting Settings New Work

Book:The works

Source: The works

“So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.”

Knowledge Written Information

Book:Lanterns & Lances

Source: Lanterns & Lances

“First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.”

Men Firsts Looks May Names Knowledge Dignity Originals Scripture Attributes Platforms Sobriety Archetype

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”

Form Knowledge Knowing Essentials Direct Representation Beam

Book:The works

Source: The works

“But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.”

Humans Universe Found Existence Knowledge Building Pride Holy Models Worthy Intellect Temples Echoes Pyramids Capitol

Book:Francisci BAconi de Verulamio, ...: Novum organum, sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturæ

Source: Francisci BAconi de Verulamio, ...: Novum organum, sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturæ

“My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.”

Men Mind Knowledge He Man Praise Accidents Dedicated

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England

“Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.”

Mind Ends Use Perfect Pleasure Knowledge Fame Benefits Charity Profit Addresses Inferiors Superiority Contention Admonition

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.”

“Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.”

Humans Body Form Given Differences Knowledge Aim Human Knowledge Human Power

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.”

Causes Knowledge Four Materials Finals Establishment Efficient Formal True Knowledge

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”

Men Humans Philosophy Character Use Humanity Three Natural Differences Knowledge Divine All Things Arise Contemplation Inquiry Penetrate Power Of God Natural Philosophy

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.”

Ifs Has Beens Action Together United Knowledge Planets Highest Contemplation Civil Society Jupiter Conjunctions Saturn

Book:Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

“He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.”

Mind Matter Knowledge Humour Instruction Scorn

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.”

Mean Whole Race Knowledge Generations Mankind Divorce Separation Rational Faculty Unfortunate Fastidious

Author:Francis Bacon

“I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.”

Age Knowledge Accomplishment Posterity

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon

“A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Made Light Knowledge Kings Heavy Metals Crowns

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.”

Knows Want Use Knowledge Know How Shapes Despair Mark Paint Accurate Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.”

Ifs Firsts Speak Opinion Knowledge

Author:William Congreve

“3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).”

Heart Passion Three Sound Principles Knowledge Design Communication And Love Technique Genuine Designer Requirements Professionalism Graphic Design Good Design Great Design

Author:Lester Beall

“Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

Life Art Pain Life Is Knowledge Learning Painting Management Painting A Picture

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.”

Knows Men Years Mean Art Wisdom Eye Time Girl Three Hurt Knowledge Worry Wife Cry Listening Promise Husband Clean Wide Thee Cooks Meals Her Eyes Really Mean Sweetest I Promise Eyes Wide Open

Author:Alan Beck

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

Knows Inspirational Science Opinion Knowledge Ignorance Intelligence Stupidity Satisfied Ignorant Perpetual Recipes Knowledge And Ignorance

Book:Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

Ifs Love Inspirational Dream Life Is Poetry Dies Change Freedom Business Knowledge Positive Thinking Inspirational Life Broken Bird Wings Educational African American Novelists Your Dreams Broken Heart Dreamer American Dream Fulfilling Follow Your Dreams Black History Chase Your Dreams Dreams Do Come True Hopes And Dreams I Had A Dream Dreams And Reality Essayists Just A Dream Dreams You Have Hold Fast Columnists Black History Month Dare To Dream Small Dreams Dreams And Goals Broken Dreams Following Dreams Achieving Dreams Black History Month Inspirational Life Dream Dream Reality Following My Dreams African American History Achieving Your Dreams Inspirational Dream Life Is A Dream Dreams And Aspirations Hopes Dreams Black History Inspirational Life And Dreams Harlem Renaissance Fulfilling Dreams African American Inspirational Dreaming About You Never Stop Dreaming Broken Wings Bird Flying Cute Dream Dreams And Passion Hopes In Life Dream Chasing Fulfilling Your Dreams

Author:Langston Hughes

Knowledge Quotes

Related topics

Knowledge Quotes