Skip to content

Knowledge Quote by Bill Hayes

“Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of his body has no knowledge of himself. —JOHN MOIR, student of anatomy, notes from opening lecture, Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620” quote by Bill Hayes — Download Open image

““Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of his body has no knowledge of himself. —JOHN MOIR, student of anatomy, notes from opening lecture, Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Knowledge Wisdom

More by Bill Hayes

“O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world…

Image

“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.” Oliver Sacks”

Image

“But if pressed, I’d have to say that what I love most about the subways of New York is what they do not do. One may spend a lifetime looking back—whether regretfully or wistfully, with shame or fondness or sorrow—and thinking how, given the chance, things might have been done differently. But when you enter a subway car and the…

“In the year 1240, however, a radical change in policy took effect. Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, decreed that, for the sake of public health and the training of better doctors, at least one human body would be dissected in his kingdom every five years. For this bold move, Frederick II is credited with single-handedly pulling the…

“rolls, the snow fell hard—hard—piling on”

Image

“savoring the words, and then aloud to me: “‘Reckon not upon long life: think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account.…

Image

“Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I…

Image

“Anathomia by Mondino dei Liucci, c. 1493”

Image

“The kidneys also provide a perfect illustration of an age-old anatomical truth: the body is designed to protect itself, not to be easy to…

Image

“Remember this phrase,” Dana tell us: “‘The heart feeds itself first.”

Image

“Let the same thing, or the same duty, return at the same time everyday, it will soon become pleasant.”

Image

Explore all 12 Bill Hayes quotes

More Knowledge quotes

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

Image

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

William Bernbach

Image

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

Image

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

Image

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is…

“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…

Image

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

Alexander the Great

Image

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Image

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

Pankaj Tripathi

Browse all 12,789 Knowledge quotes