Quotes of: Technical-knowledge Keyword

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Arthur Erickson

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Andy Weir

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Brian O'Driscoll

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Charles Babbage

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

David Hartman

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Denham