Human Knowledge Quotes

86 quotes by 78 authors

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral… — Albert Einstein
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation… — Laurence Overmire
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who… — Franz Grillparzer
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that… — Karl Popper
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. — Arthur Machen
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell, — Michael Polanyi
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further… — Erik Naggum
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. — Paul Broca
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to… — Nathaniel Branden
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should… — Ayn Rand
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems… — Ludwig Boltzmann
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm… — Eben Alexander
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in… — Eben Alexander
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction… — Charles Babbage
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. — John Jewel

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