Quotes About Knowledge

No single person could hope to reproduce this inherited wisom on his own. As Confucius puts it, "I once engaged in thought for an entire day without eating and an entire night without sleeping., but it did no good. It would have been better for me to have spent that time learning." Thinking on one's own might be compared to randomly banging on a piano: a million monkeys given a million years might produce something, but its better to start with Mozart.

It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a time, the extended system accretes to itself a past and a history as well as a body of knowledge and skills that can be learned. Such systems can be studied and appreciated as entities in themselves.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate...Hydrogen bombs will not produce themselves.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

The tree of knowledge is based on pleasure and pain; the ultimate reduction. From here we get joy and sorrow, the two primary emotions. Love is a form of joy and hate, a form of sorrow, but all spring from the tree of pleasure and pain, which all 'know.

Giving life 'purpose' is anthropomorphism. It is our own desire for ends or completion. The door is already open. There is nothing to complete, only to know. Heaven on Earth is here.

Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.

The hardest part of research is always to find a question that's big enough that it's worth answering, but little enough that you actually can answer it.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The Sphere would willingly have continued his lessons by indoctrinating me in the conformation of all regular Solids, Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, Pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and Spheres: but I ventured to interrupt him. Not that I was wearied of knowledge. On the contrary, I thirsted for yet deeper and fuller draughts than he was offering to me.

From dreams I proceed to facts.

There hath been a slaughter for the sacrifice And slaying for the meat, but henceforth none Shall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh, Seeing that knowledge grows, and life is one, And mercy cometh to the merciful.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily—or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. I proved it.

If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.

the nature of the game as it is played is such that the public should realize that the truth cannot be told by the few who know. Otherwise they could not benefit by their knowledge