Knowledge
Quotes - Knowledge grows exponentially
“We
are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation
-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a
memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series,
English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
“I
do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that
agnosticism means.”
―
Clarence Darrow
“Knowledge
grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and
the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
―
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
“I
set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into
knowledge.”
―
Charles Baudelaire
“It's
funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the
minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it
does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in
being here.”
―
Kirstie Alley
“Humor
can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
“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.”
―
Edward Said
“Quiet
people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world
is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never
underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they
are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
―
Criss Jami, Healology
“Acquiring
wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
―
idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your
Ability
“Knowledge
is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
―
Terry Goodkind
“Those
who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of
nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools,
are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom
the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know
that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which
is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
―
Baruch De Spinoza, Ethics
“Ipsa
scientia potestas est.
Knowledge
itself is power.”
―
Francis Bacon, Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy
“The
true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon
oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
―
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
“A
baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that
brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are
sure to get.”
― L.
Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“When
learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking
emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is
lit, economy flourishes.”
―
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indomitable Spirit
“They
trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to
me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know
the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace
individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was
offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger
it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I
had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full
of stupid importance.”
―
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“As
our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness
surrounding it.”
―
Albert Einstein
“A
problem well put is half solved.”
―
John Dewey
“Knowledge
kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
“Science,
my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to
make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
―
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“I
don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson
“Integrity
without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.”
―
Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“What
do you know?”
“Almost
everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”
“What
do you want, then?”
“What
I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin
Stormblessed.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
“These
people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the
river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to
them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very
trees, and wild herbs.”
―
Anton Chekhov
“I
only know that I know nothing”
―
Socrates
“I
don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the
things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the
less I understand.”
―
Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
“....a
good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than
how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just
more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce
that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the
great and enduring truths of human life.”
―
Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
