Knowledge Quotes VIII

KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims

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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

CHARLES DE LINT

"The Pochade Box", The Ivory and the Horn

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Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task

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You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

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That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune

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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

ALAN MOORE

V for Vendetta

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The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men

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Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

MICHIO KAKU

Hyperspace

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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.