In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.
During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.
Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.
As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people. ' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
It takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best. The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. . . . Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.
I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.