I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets.
So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know. "
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there. '
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.