Knowledge Quotes

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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. — Witter Bynner
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not. — Alfred Korzybski
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight… — Bertrand Russell
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between… — Bertrand Russell
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. — Richard P. Feynman
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself. — Benjamin Carson
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at… — Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end. — Unknown Author
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we… — Karl Popper
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We… — Marvin Minsky
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. — Marvin Minsky
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would… — Harold Pinter
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to… — Anatol Rapoport
I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom,… — Jonas Salk
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure… — Daniel Dennett
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,… — Marvin Minsky
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation... — Peter Drucker
From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn… — Ray Bradbury

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