Quotes About Knowledge

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.