Quotes About Knowledge

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

het is jammer, dat ons alleen maar feiten over de mens worden medegedeeld - wij hebben feiten teveel - het is iets anders wat we omtrent de mens verlangen te weten - onze gedachten, die vreemde, welke nog steeds de oorsprong zijn van ons onbegrijpelijke gedrag.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

human-intensive services business is entirely different. In services you don't make a product and then sell it. You sell a capability. You sell knowledge. You create it at the same time you deliver it. The business model is different. The economics are entirely different.

A love for good books is one of the best safeguards a man can have.

You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away…

You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away… ? , Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed/Psychoanalytic Writings

He understood my passion for books, which has made me perhaps the best-read idiot in the world.

Discontent is only the fear of missing something. Content is the knowledge that you aren't missing anything worth-while.

There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may even come a time when you will lie about who took the first bite.

When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

We need to understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge." are always open.

I can feel love for: The very process of life itself. The joy of being alive. The beauty I see. Another person. Knowledge. The process of the mind. Our bodies and the way they work. Animals, birds, fish. Vegetation in all its forms. The Universe and the way it works.

As we gain more understanding, awareness and knowledge, then we will do things differently.

Every time you say, "I don't know," you shut the door to your own inner wisdom.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.

Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge. It was an old library, filled with old books and dusty old thoughts.

What is essential is invisible to the eye. Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries. But

If you don't know something, ask. You have to be able to admit you don't know something, otherwise you'll just get more and more confused, or worse, you'll jump to a false conclusion. All the mistakes I've made have been because I've assumed something and then acted as though it was fact.