Quotes About Knowledge

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

Man must go back to nature for information.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.