Human Knowledge Quotes
86 quotes by 78 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
— Arthur Machen
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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.
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I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
— Michael Polanyi
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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
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
— John Jewel
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