975 quotes found
“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.”
“Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are...”
“Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of wh...”
“I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.”
“What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money."When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he shoul...”
“It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.”
“If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.”
“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”
“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”
“Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.”
“And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.”
“In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that every...”
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there i...”
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come ne...”
“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, e...”
“In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I dont ...”
