Home / Topics / Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge Quotes

Browse 6283 quotes about Knowledge.

Knowledge Quotes

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

Doe Past Moving Knowledge History Learning Aspect Leap Emphasis Novelty Selective

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.”

Men Giving Firsts Moving Turns Knowledge Mankind Prove Valuable Accomplished Surround

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

Ifs Past Moving Knowledge Learning Taken Limits Active Cease Ties About Yourself Accumulation Static Learning Knowledge Learning About Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.”

World Two Body Seems Moving Knowledge Progress Hundred Eight Bones Thirty Biology Physiology Thirty Eight

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“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.

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.”

Moving Knowledge Ignorance Pockets

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.”

Writing Moving Time Education Knowledge Power Learning Educational Strikes Weather Instant Mastery Gathering Rough Times Thunderbolts

Author:John W. Gardner

“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.”

Moving Mistake Knowledge Fallacy Specialists Small Mistakes

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”

“Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Men Running Age Moving Science Purpose Process Knowledge Sun Doubt Accounts

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.”

Way Should Mind Persons Different Use Pain Moving Used Names Memories Knowledge Imagine Wheels Different Things Usual Mechanism Nevertheless Symptoms Fitting

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein