Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Sigmund Freud

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

Angel Cabrera

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Albert J. Nock

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Avicenna

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Bertrand Russell

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Perlmutter

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

David Weinberger

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Gene Wolfe

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Henry Miller

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Henri Poincare