All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.
Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.
An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine.
A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.
All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.
Never. . . stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
