Quotes About Knowledge

Montre-moi une famille de lecteurs, et je te montrerai les gens qui bougent le monde.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.

Impossible is in the dictionary of fools

Knowledge is only potential power.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Por lo que respecta a la educación de los hijos, creo que no hay que enseñarles las pequeñas virtudes, sino en las grandes. No el ahorro, sino la generosidad y la indiferencia hacia el dinero; no la prudencia, sino el coraje y el desprecio por el peligro; no la astucia, sino la franqueza y el amor por la verdad; no la diplomacia, sino el amor al prójimo y la admiración; no el deseo del éxito, sino deseo de ser y de saber.

The authors present many things that are new, and many things that are true; unfortunately, the things that are true are not new; and the things that are new are not true.

Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition.

Scientists get annoyed at the hackneyed notion that their pursuit of knowledge diminishes the mystery or art or "holiness" of life.

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge Be in love with your life

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

I'd follow my father from book to book, gathering citations, listen as he named--like a field guide to Virginia-- each flower and tree and bird as if to prove a man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Always there is something more to know