“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“I remember Bob saying, 'Some people who believe in God are good, and some people who believe in God are not good.… — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
The knowledge you have through so much shooting, so much work you do, you develop yourself very fast. And because of the… — Kim Bodnia Copy Share Image
“Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
“How do you tell a young girl in her formative years that the real value, real wealth is only in acquisition of… — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Initially, I didn't have much knowledge about cinema. But once I started doing good films, precisely after 'Kaaka Muttai,' people started respecting… — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics: the continuous creation of new categories; openness to new information; and an implicit awareness… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a… — Tyler Edwards Copy Share Image
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his… — James Small Copy Share Image
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
We think so because all other people think so; Or because-or because-after all, we do think so; Or because we were told… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the… — Seth Copy Share Image
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image