Aristotle Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Men Quotes

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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