Our Knowledge Quotes

262 quotes by 214 authors

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. — Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. — Thomas J. Watson
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — Don DeLillo
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not… — Carl von Clausewitz
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point… — Jonathan Swift
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but… — Jostein Gaarder
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.… — Cecelia Ahern
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own… — Max Frisch
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. — Dan Brown
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in… — Cormac McCarthy
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man… — James Lee Burke
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what… — Barbara Hambly
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man… — Thomas Merton

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