Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Morning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Morning Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Learning Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Matter Quotes

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Wise Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Literature Quotes

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Conscious Quotes

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Soul Quotes

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Firsts Quotes

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Drs Quotes

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Bliss Quotes

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Thinking Quotes

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes