Knowledge Quote by Nick Harkaway

“There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him.”

— Tam Linsey

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible…

— Lucretius

“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)”

— Ovid

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society…

— Pankaj Tripathi

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

— Alexander the Great

“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…

— Carl Zimmer

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

— Bankei Yotaku

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

— M. Scott Peck