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“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.”

May Might Knowledge Study Retirement

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

May Book Use Pleasure Knowledge Study Conversation Draws Method Notion Engaged Charm Multitudes Invitations Couches Comprehension Sloth Rectify

Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.”

May Mean Doe Ends Body Science Certain Knowledge Progress Development Accounts Intuition Intellect Poetic Endeavor Idle Certain Knowledge

Author:Max Planck

“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.”

Knows Trying May Stills Science Space Behinds Knowledge Fronts Position Higher Scales Wander Uncharted

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.”

Knows May Turns Knowledge Masters Please Interfere

Author:Plato

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.”

May Knowledge Solitude Seeds

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

Ifs Knows May Talking Knowledge Subjects Effects Pure Mathematics Defined Propositions Assertion True Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.”

Way Humans Kind May Mean Facts Use Used Poetry Knowledge Generations Poet Civilization Resources Invention Monument Usefulness Human Resources Scrap Precious Time

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.”

Knows May Knowledge Nameless

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”

“The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.”

May Real Wealth Knowledge Virtue Paper Credit Stealing Thieves Stolen Paper Money Swindlers

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“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

“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

“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”

Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy

“There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.”

Ifs Knows May Company Knowledge One Thing Please Gains Glad

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”

May Peace Knowledge Information Humility Tyranny Tyrants Hoarding Knowledge Is Power Knowledge Of The World Knowledge And Power Access To Information Power Of Knowledge Knowledge And Information False Humility Information Knowledge Information Is Power

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

May Soul Force Felt Emotion Brain Knowledge Learning Training Cognition Graphic Design Raw Emotion

Book:The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910

Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”

Ifs Wells May Values Knowledge Amount Library Disorder Useful Knowledge

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational May Littles Knowledge Humility Investing Humble Optimistic

Author:John Templeton

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

Should May Science Imagination Knowledge Imagine Limits Accounts Great Science

Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“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.'”

Men Love May Country Earth Nations Liberty Knowledge Rights Feet Surface Grants Thorough Thorough Knowledge Thorough Understanding

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.”

World May Important Hard Realizing Deals Knowledge Learning Lessons Demand Entitled Hard Lessons

Author:Bruce Catton

“Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.”

May Facts Understanding Attention Knowledge Knowing Subjects Effects Building Judging Understood Instruments Workers Details Score Bricks Convenient Violin True Knowledge Sonatas

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.”

Men May Purpose Knowledge Branches Good Man

Book:Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

Source: Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

“Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.”

Looks May Littles Knowledge Infinite Over It Toil Mist Ascending

Book:Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life

Source: Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life

“It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.”

People Humans Wells May Whole Knowledge Millions Learning Wise Land Philosopher Streams Discovering Multitudes True Knowledge Human Power

Author:Horace Mann

“For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.”

Way Kind May Matter Hands Three Knowledge Knowing Universal Errors Three Ways

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.”

Knows May Ideas Soul Knowledge All Things Originals God Knows Original Ideas

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.”

Men World Humans May Might Grief Existence Knowledge He Man Becoming Misery Silent Rewards Accomplish Proof Spots Human Life Flaws Publish Reap Unnoticed Jupiter Wretchedness Becoming Famous

Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”

Thinking Men May Mean Christian Belief Knowledge Sorrow Life Means

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.”

Men May Knowledge Pillars Rail Her Beauty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.”

Men May Ends Use Individual Knowledge Society Achieve Particular Civilization Members Profit Pursue Civilized Civilized Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.”

May Knowledge Limits Treats Careful Guides Be Careful

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Wells May Hard Bigs Science Asks Company Knowledge Students Hard Work Involving Molecules Good Company

Author:George Wald

“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.”

Knows World Way May Humanity Understanding Knowledge Knowing Instruments Neighbor Best Way Introspection Understanding The World

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.”