Quotes and sayings about tag  #knowledge

Quotes and sayings about tag  knowledge

133 Quotes

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Ian McEwan

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Immanuel Kant

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Isaac Asimov

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J.K. Rowling

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

J.K. Rowling

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Janet Fitch

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Jim Butcher

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Joe Abercrombie

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

John Adams

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

John Berger

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Julie Kagawa

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Kahlil Gibran

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl R. Popper

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

Kirstie Alley

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

Lao Tzu

The knowledge of all things is possible

Leonardo da Vinci

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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