Quotes About Knowledge

Joule wrote later in his autobiographical note, "Dalton possessed a rare power of engaging the affection of his pupils for scientific truth; and it was from his instruction that I first formed a desire to increase my knowledge by original researches.

I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As

Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time….. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief." On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us. —William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty. "—James Madison.

A smart man learns from experience; a wise man learns from the experience of others.

Most are interested in the philosophical only to the extent of finding out what the accepted view is in order that they may accept it and get on to the practical matters.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, intensely, by God.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.