Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Science is public, not private, knowledge.
If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Knowledge is the currency of the universe.
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
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.
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.