Knowledge Quotes

“The concept of prime numbers is a human invention... The world is not sitting out there with dots on it.”

“A classification is a map of knowledge.”

“Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more about less and less.”

“There are things that are hidden from us, and the more we want to see them, the more they are hidden.”

“Every book is a new door to a new world.”

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

“Philosophy is not a wisdom to be possessed but an attitude to be assumed.”

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.”

“Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest.”

“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”

“Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.”

“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”

“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”

“If you can't - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.”

“Thou art in my heart, and there is no other that knoweth thee save thy son... for thou hast made him wise in thy designs and in thy might.”

“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”