Knowledge Quotes

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All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine. — Fridtjof Nansen
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J. Boorstin
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which… — Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. — Leonardo da Vinci
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it… — Leonardo da Vinci
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein
The substitute for knowledge is money. — Gordon Bethune
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped. — Devdutt Pattanaik
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are. — Bruce Feiler
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. — Judith Miller
Be mindful of what supermarkets are doing and demand to see their business practices. Stop throwing away food. Compost as much as you can, eat… — Arthur Potts Dawson
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law… — Paul Johnson
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. — Sheena Iyengar
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products… — Ben Goldacre
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human… — Sugata Mitra
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great… — Gary Wolf
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual… — Emile Durkheim
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of… — Emile Durkheim
No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as… — John Wilbanks

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