Knowledge Quotes - Page 27

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.

  Ronald Knox

  Science, Thinking, Scotland

  "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.

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• Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

  Edward Albee

  Distance, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.63, The Overlook Press

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  John Locke

  Character, Science, Men

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Change, Needs, Hours

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Giving

  "The Value of Literature to Men of Business". Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, October 23, 1844.

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• To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Mean, Promise

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• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Life, Freedom, Philosophy

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.

  Mark Peters

  Done, Uniforms, Cloaks

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• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wisdom, Horse

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 19

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Organized Life, Too Much Information, Lost

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Latin, Knowledge And Power

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Men

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Mind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 22, 2013

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.

  Robert P. Crease

  Science, Discovery, Generations

  Robert P. Crease (2010). “The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Believe, Science, Men

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Science, Past

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• If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Wisdom, Science, Medicine

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• If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.

  Elihu Thomson

  Real, Teaching, Science

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• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Limits, Concerned

  Rudolf Virchow, Frank CHANCE (1860). “Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.”, p.10

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• In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Science, Wish, Examination

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1923). “Laughter from a Cloud”

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