Human Knowledge Quotes - Page 1

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic
Intelligence
Knowledge
Form
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Humans
Interpretation
Takes
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Muhammad Iqbal / Philosopher
Experience
Knowledge
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Humans
Source
Only
Human
Inner
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Inspirational
Journey
Knowledge
Religion
Drinking
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Moonshine
Now
Here
Further
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My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.
John B. Goodenough /
Betterment
Human Knowledge
Contribute
Objective
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Knowledge
Active
Another Way
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Ideas
Thinking
Way
Idea
Essentially
Express
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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel /
Knowledge
Astrology
Dark
Geometry
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Philosophy
Uncertain
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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Knowledge
Construction
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Logic
Mean
Single
Strong
Support
Total
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Arthur Machen / Author
Knowledge
Branches
Finals
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Principles
Branch
Final
Vanishes
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin /
Conscious
Details
Development
Human Knowledge
Inability
Developments
Grasp
Large
Large Portion
Portion
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer / Writer
Funny
Inspirational
Ocean
Human Knowledge
Sail
Sailing
Storm
Drives
Row
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Nathaniel Branden / Psychotherapist
Knowledge
Ability
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Security
Ten
Doubling
Total
Rest
Ten Years
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Jimmy Wales / Internet Entrepreneur
Knowledge
Business
Access
Given
Human Knowledge
Imagine
Internet Access
Single
Single Person
World
Person
Free
Doing
Every
Human
Planet
Sum
Which
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I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.
Adam Conover / Comedian
Comedian
Human Knowledge
Liberal Arts
Mixing
Spheres
Definition
Influencing
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Knowledge
Differences
Exaggeration
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Observation
States
Basis
State
Search
Similarities
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Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
Paul Kalanithi /
Knowledge
Grows
Human Knowledge
World
Person
Never
Between
Complete
Contained
Create
Each
Human
Still
Other
Relationships
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Abdullah Ii Of Jordan /
Altered
Historic
Human Knowledge
Numbers
Breakthroughs
Changes
Daily
Vast
Realities
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At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
Adam Conover / Comedian
Human Knowledge
Proven
Perfectly
Sum
Sum Total
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy / 35Th U.s. President
Journey
Knowledge
Alone
Science
Exception
Extraordinary
House
Human Knowledge
Talent
Thinking
White
White House
Collection
Possible
Dined
Ever
Gathered
Jefferson
Thomas
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Herbert A. Simon /
Behave
Clouds
Human Knowledge
Rain
Changing
Dances
Less Time
Rationally
Respects
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Knowledge
Ability
Average
Average Person
Esoteric
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Mystery
Extent
Inner
Learned
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The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.
Abby Martin /
Articles
Billions
Fees
Grants
Human Knowledge
Licensing
Publishing
Scholarly
Taxpayers
Hoard
Journals
Owned
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
James Marsh /
Famous
Human Knowledge
Isaac
Jumping
Mathematical
Newton
School Days
Water
Visual
Apple
Hit
Bath
Element
Essentially
In Other Words
Playful
Principle
Realm
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
Nathan Myhrvold / Author
Knowledge
Attractive
Candidates
Charismatic
Contests
Determined
Effectiveness
Human Knowledge
Imagine
Relative
Scientific Truth
Successful
Suffering
According
Elections
Terribly
Measures
Popular
Rather
Scientific
Suffer
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