Knowledge Quotes

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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Myron Tribus
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. — Seth Lloyd
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we… — Dean Kamen
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contextsâ€”mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge thatâ€™s generally suppressed… — Peter Thiel
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going… — E. O. Wilson
Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away, — Peter Schwartz
What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and… — David Hume
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects… — Donald Knuth
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is… — Donald Knuth
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across… — Loren Eiseley
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining… — James Clerk Maxwell
Deception is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind… — James Jeans
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during… — Charles Taze Russell
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it. — James St. James
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge. — Oliver Smithies
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will… — Eric Liddell

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