Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ...

Life

The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived and disseminated throughout the world by Western civilization; knowledge whose nature has be...

Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

The Prophet

There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe.

Stephen Richards

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Herbert Simon

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James Mark Baldwin

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Max Weber

The door of true knowledge will opento the light

Eleazar

God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Dutch

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Guinean

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

The Ministry of Fear

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.

Iranian

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Stefan Molyneux

Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.

M.F. Moonzajer

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.

Roopleen