Browsing Quotes With Tag: knowledge (32)
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Speaker: Adolf BerleSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the paradoxes I have gathered on these pages have on recurring theme, it is the folly of denying ignorance. Just because something is so doesn’t mean that we can know it. There is necessary ignorance, and it is more significant than mere solipsism would have us believe.
Speaker: William PoundstoneSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponent and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Speaker: Max PlanckSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Answers are about the past, and abilities are about the future
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which hell affords.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“It is strange, at first, to think in the right way. But there are a few things we can know, a few things to be sure of, and it is relatively easy. Let me show you. To know the truth, all you have to do is close your eyes.”
“It’s that easy?” I laughed.
“Yes. All you have to do is close your eyes. We can know God, for example, and we can know sadness. We can know dreams, and we can know love. But none of these are real, in our usual sense of things that exist in the world and seem real. We cannot weigh them, or measure their length, or find their basic parts in an atom smasher. Which is why they are possible.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Speaker: Immanuel KantPosted: 08 Jul 2008 at 2:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!