Quotes and Sayings About Knowledge
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
-- A. A. GillSource : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.
-- Abraham Flexner -
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
-- Al Bernstein -
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus -
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
-- Albert Camus -
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
-- Albert Camus -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein -
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
-- Albert Einstein -
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
-- Albert Einstein -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-- Albert Einstein -
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
-- Albert Einstein -
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
-- Albert Einstein -
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
-- Albert Einstein -
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When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
-- Albert HofmannSource : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
-- Albert Pike -
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
-- Aldous Huxley -
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
-- Aldous HuxleySource : Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
-- Aldus Manutius