The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.” — M.H. Van Keuren Copy Share Image
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge.… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its sourceFor, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The astronauts put their lives at risk to help other people. There's a strength of belief in a person like that that… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“All Human Knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.” — Housman Copy Share Image
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it,… — Amanda Dubin Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
“said, “Human knowledge must be understood in order to be loved; but Divine knowledge must be loved to be understood.” That marks… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. Human knowledge is never… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image