Knowledge Quotes - Page 31

• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Data, Long

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

  Chip Heath

  Imagine, Knows, Hard

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.20, Random House

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• One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Intelligent, Fleeting, World

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• It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

  Paul Halmos

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag

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• I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Jobs, Thinking, Get Better

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• Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

  Peter Ritchie Calder

  Education, Science, Judgment

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• Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

  James Dewar

  Mind, Parachutes

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• The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Quality, Definitions

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Achievement

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Horse, Heart

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• It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

  Henry D. Taylor

  Life, Important, Principles

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• Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Men, Religion

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• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Trends, Approach

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• My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Pride, Achievement

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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• Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Confusion, Confusing

  "Education and the Significance of Life". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1953.

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• In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Light, Historical, Morality

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.20

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• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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• To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Running, Order

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• A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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• But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Errors

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.81

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• By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Two, Remembrance

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.12

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• During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Men, Fields

  Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

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• Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Science, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.142

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• Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

  John Herschel

  Science, Students, Pursuit

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1869). “Outlines of Astronomy”, p.17

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• Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

  Francois Magendie

  Science, Order, Facts

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