Knowledge Quotes

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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine… — John Dewey
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears… — J. Willard Gibbs
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . .… — Helen Keller
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and… — John Maynard Keynes
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. — John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,… — John Calvin
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings. — Ramana Maharshi
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru… — Ramana Maharshi
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good… — Ayn Rand
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. — Ayn Rand
Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. — Ayn Rand
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. — Milton H. Erickson
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that… — Guy Debord

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