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In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Being an independent reporter with legal knowledge fits me better than being an attorney who is representing one side or one goal.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.
The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.