Quotes About Knowledge

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

Education is life itself.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

wonder is the mother of all science.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it, and the further conclusions to which it tends, constitutes reflective thought… It is a conscious and voluntary effort to establish belief upon a firm basis of reasons.

We cannot expect to gain true knowledge without acting upon our ideas.

hear you don't believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert the obvious and immediate facts of gross experience, unmindful that thereby philosophy itself commits suicide.

Education is not preparation for life; it is life itself.

The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables mankind to secure a larger and to direct a more equal flow of values in life.